Photo gallery - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2004

Empty chairs at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

Before the guests' arrival at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, December 10, 2004.

The Concert Hall was decorated with Sanremo's most ubiquitous flower - the carnation.

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.

Flower decorations 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. There are also stalks of lilac phaelenopsis. A total of 13,000 flowers deck the Stockholm Concert Hall.

The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

Prince Carl Philip, Crown Princess Victoria, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Princess Lilian

The Swedish Royal Family in the front row (left to right): Prince Carl Philip, Crown Princess Victoria, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Princess Lilian.

Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

American Irwin A. Rose acknowledges the applause after receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Linda B. Buck (middle), who shared 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.