Photo gallery - The Nobel Banquet 1990

Elias James Corey talking to HM Queen Silvia of Sweden at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1990.

Always a highlight of the Nobel Banquet, the Nobel ice cream is being brought down the stairway of the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall.

Mexican musicians in their wide brimmed hats serenade the guests.

Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf (right) and Queen Silvia of Sweden (second from right) with Joseph E. Murray, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and his wife, Bobby.