Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1929. From left: Owen Willans Richardson, physics laureate 1928; Louis de Broglie, physics laureate 1929; Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, chemistry laureates 1929; Sir Frederick Hopkins, medicine laureate 1929 and Thomas Mann, literature laureate 1929.

Fritz Lipmann receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953. Fritz Lipmann’s son Steven admiring his father’s Nobel Prize medal after the award ceremony. From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the…

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Georg von Békésy (left) and literature laureate Ivo Andric during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1961.

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