STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Ten winners of the
2008 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics
received their prizes on Wednesday at a ceremony in Stockholm, the capital of
Sweden.
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Guests and honorees join the Swedish
royal family at the Nobel banquet in the Blue Hall at Stockholm's City
Hall Dec. 10, 2008. Ten winners of the 2008 Nobel Prizes in physics,
chemistry, medicine, literature and economics received their prizes on
Wednesday at a ceremony in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. (Xinhua
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American professor Ylichiro Nambu, one of the Nobel
Physics Prize winners, is absent from the ceremony for his 87-year-old advanced
age. Marcus Storch, chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, sent the
"warmest regards" to Nambu in his opening address.
Storch expressed a very warm welcome in his address
to the laureates and their families to the ceremony in honor of the laureates
and their contributions to science and literature.
Storch emphasized the importance of knowledge and the
contributions made by universities. He said the basis of all human development
was knowledge and the most important contributions came from universities.
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Honorees (1st row) are seen at the Nobel
banquet in the Blue Hall at Stockholm's City Hall Dec. 10, 2008. Ten
winners of the 2008 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine,
literature and economics received their prizes on Wednesday at a ceremony
in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. (Xinhua Photo)
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The laureates that attended the ceremony are two
Nobel Physics winners Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, three Nobel
Chemistry Prize winners Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien,
three Nobel Medicine Prize winners Harald zur Hausen, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
and Luc Montagnier, Nobel Literature Prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio,
and Nobel Economics Prize winner Paul Krugman.
They were awarded their Nobel Prizes by the Swedish
King Carl XVI Gustaf before a large audience. Each prize consists of a medal, a
personal diploma and a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (about 1.2
million U.S. dollars).
The Nobel Prize laureates will also attend a gala
banquet a few blocks away at the Stockholm city hall after the ceremony.
Earlier on Wednesday in the Norwegian capital Oslo,
former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari received the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize at
a grand ceremony for "his important efforts to resolve international conflicts
on several continents and over more than three decades."
The Nobel Prizes are usually announced in October and
are handed out every year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.
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