The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2004

Stockholm, Sweden
   
Before the guests' arrival at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2004.
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To honor the memory of Alfred Nobel, who spent the last years of his life in Sanremo, Italy, and died there on 10 December 1896, the city of Sanremo sends flowers every year to decorate the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Stockholm City Hall. This year, the Concert Hall was decorated with Sanremo's most ubiquitous flower - the carnation.
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The backdrop, with its red and cerise tones, is decorated with carnations, gerbera, blood-red roses, fescue grass and phaelenopsis orchids. Silver fir and branches of juniper provide a contrasting Swedish winter feel at the orchestra podium and the edge of the stage. There are also stalks of lilac phaelenopsis. A total of 13,000 flowers deck the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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The Royal Swedish Family at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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American Irwin A. Rose acknowledges the applause after receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Linda B. Buck (middle), who shares the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard Axel (left), smilingly holds her diploma and medal. To her left is Economics Laureate Finn E. Kydland.
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