Joseph E. Murray
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Joseph E. Murray receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, on 10 December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
All 1990 Nobel Prize laureates assembled on stage at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 1990: physics laureates Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor, Chemistry laureate Elias James Corey, medicine laureates Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas, literature laureate Octavio Paz and economic sciences laureates Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Sweden's Princess Lilian and Joseph E. Murray at the Nobel Prize banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Joseph E. Murray delivering his banquet speech at the Nobel Prize banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Joseph E. Murray and his wife, Bobby, with Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf (right) and Queen Silvia of Sweden (second from right) at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1990.
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Joseph E. Murray photographed during Nobel Week in Stockholm, December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
Medicine laureates Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas photographed during Nobel Week in Stockholm, December 1990.
Nobel Foundation. Photo: Lars Åström
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.