In homage of Alfred Nobel, the city of Sanremo sends flowers every year to decorate the Stockholm Concert Hall. This year, the Hall was dressed in winter attire, with floral decorations exclusively in white and green nuances.

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The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

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Professor Joseph Nordgren presents the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan receiving his Nobel Prize in Chemistry from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

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The Swedish Royal Family (front row, left to right): Queen Silvia, King Carl XVI Gustaf, and Crown Princess Victoria. Princess Madeleine and Prince Carl Philip can be seen on the second row.

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Close-up from the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (from left to right): Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Jack W. Szostak, Nobel Laureate in Literature Herta Müller and Laureate in Economic Sciences Elinor Ostrom.

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Nobel Laureate Elizabeth H. Blackburn after receiving her Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden at the 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

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Soloist Mira Pyne and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performed music from Tosca by Giacomo Puccini and Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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The 2009 Nobel Laureates stand for the Swedish national anthem (from left): Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak, Herta Müller, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson.

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Charles K. Kao, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physics, with his wife Mrs May W. Kao after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ada E. Yonath with her grand-daughter, Noa (left), and her sister, Mrs Nurit Raviv (right), after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm.

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Jonathan Glenn Steitz (left) shakes hands with his father, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Thomas A. Steitz (right), in front of the bust of Alfred Nobel in the Stockholm Concert Hall.

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