Naguib Mahfouz
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Umm Kulthoum Mahfouz and Fatma Naguib Mahfouz receiving the Nobel Prize in literature 1988 on behalf of their father Naguib Mahfouz at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 1988.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Mr. Mohamed Salmawy delivering the Nobel Lecture on behalf of literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz at the Swedish Academy, 8 December 1988.
Photo from the Lars Åström archive
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.
Photo from the Lars Åström archive
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.
