Since
1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented to the Laureates at ceremonies on 10
December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. As stipulated in the will of
the Swedish-born inventor and international industrialist Alfred Nobel, which
was opened after his death in 1896, the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology
or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel
Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel
Prize Ceremony will be starts at 12.50 Central European Time (which is 2h and
30m behind Tehran local time) with Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony from Oslo.
In Oslo the Nobel Peace Prize is
presented by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of
Their Majesties the King and Queen of Norway, the Government, representatives
and an invited audience. Several hundred seats are reserved for persons with
special reasons for wishing to attend the ceremony. Later the same day, the
Norwegian Nobel Committee hosts a banquet in honor of the Laureate, with
specially invited guests.
Oslo ceremony will be followed by
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden in which the
Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the
Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded to the Nobel Laureates. The ceremony
will take place at 4:30 P.M. (CET)-6:00 P.M. (CET).
The Noble Prize Laureates in
Physiology or Medicine who will be awarded today are: John
O'Keefe, University College, London, United Kingdom, May-Britt Moser, Centre
for Neural Computation, Trondheim, Norway, and Edvard I. Moser, Kavli Institute
for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway "for their discoveries of
cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain".
At the Prize Award Ceremony in
Stockholm, presentation speeches extoll the Laureates and their discovery or
work, after which His Majesty the King of Sweden hands each Laureate a diploma and
a medal. The Ceremony is followed by a banquet at the Stockholm City Hall
(Stockholms Stadshus) for about 1,300 people, including 250 students. With a
few exceptions, the Nobel Banquet has taken place at the City Hall since 1930.
The Nobel Festivities in Stockholm are arranged by the Nobel Foundation and are
primarily an academic celebration focusing on science and literature. In
addition to the Nobel Laureates and their families, Their Majesties the King
and Queen and other members of the Royal Family of Sweden are guests of honour
at both the Prize Award Ceremony and the Banquet. Representatives of the
Swedish Government and Parliament also participate. International guests enjoy
priority, especially those who represent the sciences and cultural life.
Swedish guests are people who participate in Nobel-related functions in one
capacity or another, aid the sciences through donations or otherwise support
the Foundation and the Prize Awarding.
News source: Nobelprize.org
Dr. Shima Naghavi, Director of
International Affairs