Maurice Allais
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Maurice Allais receiving his prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 1988.
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The Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall 1988. From left Medicine Laureates Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings and Laureate in Economic Aciences Maurice Allais.
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Maurice Allais at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 1988.
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Maurice Allais during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1988.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Maurice Allais delivering his prize lecture, 9 December 1988.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
The 1988 laureates assembled at the Swedish Academy, 1988. Back row from left: medicine laureate George H. Hitchings, chemistry laureate Johann Deisenhofer, medicine laureate Sir James W. Black, physics laureate Jack Steinberger, chemistry laureate Robert Huber, physics laureate Melvin Schwartz, chemistry laureate Hartmut Michel and physics laureate Leon M. Lederman. Seated are from left: laureate in economic sciences Maurice Allais, medicine laureate Gertrude B. Elion and Umm Kulthoum Mahfouz, daughter of literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.
