Photo Collection from the Nobel Festivities on December 10, 2004

 

Kenyan ecologist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, waves to 3,000 children invited by the organization Save the Children. To her left is Norway's Crown Prince Haakon.
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Photo: Eric Feferberg

 

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai before entering Oslo City Hall to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Photo: John McConnico

 

At the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony, Oslo City Hall, Kenyan dancers perform to celebrate ecologist Wangari Maathai's winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Photo: Eric Feferberg

 

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, right, shakes hands with Norway's Queen Sonja in the Oslo City Hall. In the middle is Norway's King Harald V.
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Photo: Bjorn Sigurdson

 

Wangari Maathai with her Nobel Medal and Diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo City Hall. The Kenyan ecologist is the first African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Photo: John McConnico

 

Before the guests' arrival at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

 

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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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

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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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

The Royal Swedish Family at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
Photo: Henrik Montgomery
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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.
Photo: Sven Nackstrand
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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 Prize Winner Finn E. Kydland.
Photo: Henrik Montgomery
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An parade of cars with the Nobel Laureates on their way to the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

Nobel Laureates arrive at the Stockholm City Hall.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

Boy scouts outside the Stockholm City Hall greet guests to the Nobel Banquet.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and David J. Gross, Nobel Laureate in Physics, on their way to the table of honor at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm.
Photo: Jonas Ekströmer
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The table of honor at the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

Photo session at the table of honor at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm.
Photo: Jonas Ekströmer
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Entertainment at the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, "Homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

The Nobel dessert is being served at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm.
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

 

The 2004 Nobel dessert "Mousse d´amandes aux mûres arctiques, sorbet au lait d´amandes."
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Photo: Hans Mehlin

     
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