Photo gallery - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 1999

The Swedish flag above the stage of the Stockholm Concert Hall during the 1999 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

Statue of Alfred Nobel at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 1999. All flowers were graciously provided by Azienda di Promozione Turistica Riviera dei Fiori, Sanremo, Italy.

The 1999 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Princess Lilian, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

Queen Silvia at the 1999 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, Stockholm Concert Hall.

Empty red chairs await the 1999 Nobel Laureates, who will shortly receive their Nobel Prize Medals and Diplomas from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

The 1999 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony begins. Onstage are the 1999 Nobel Laureates, the Swedish Royal Family, previous Nobel Laureates, and members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Academy and the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation.

Malena Ernman, mezzo soprano, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

Tore Frängsmyr, Professor and Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is the one who is passing the Nobel diplomas and Medals to the King.

All 1999 Nobel Laureates onstage.