J. Michael Bishop receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 1989.

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Laureates assembled at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 1989: Physics laureates Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul, chemistry laureates Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech, medicine laureates J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus, literature laureate Camilo José Cela and economic sciences laureate Trygve Haavelmo.

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Chemistry laureates Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech, medicine laureates J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus, literature laureate Camilo José Cela and economic sciences laureate Trygve Haavelmo at the 1989 Nobel Prize award ceremony.

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Medicine laureates J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus with a painting of Alfred Nobel. Photo taken during the Nobel Week, December 1989.

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Nine of the ten Nobel Prize laureates of 1989 assembled at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December 1989. Back row: J. Michael Bishop, Sidney Altman, Harold E. Varmus, Thomas R. Cech, Wolfgang Paul and Hans G. Dehmelt. Front row: Norman F. Ramsey, Camilo José Cela and Trygve Haavelmo.

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Portrait of J. Michael Bishop when visiting the Nobel Foundation in December 1989.

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