Tasuku Honjo receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2018.

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Tasuku Honjo after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2018.

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2018 laureates assembled at the Nobel Foundation on 12 December 2018. From left: physics laureate Arthur Ashkin's son Michael Ashkin, laureate in economic sciences William D. Nordhaus, physics laureates Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, chemistry laureates Sir Gregory P. Winter and George P. Smith, medicine laureates Tasuku Honjo and James P. Allison, chemistry laureate Frances H. Arnold, laureate in economic sciences Paul M. Romer and peace laureate Denis Mukwege.

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Tasuku Honjo delivering his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2018.

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2018 Medicine laureate Tasuku Honjo arrives at the Nobel museum.

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Medicine laureate Tasuku Honjo visiting the Nobel Museum.

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Nobel Prize laureate Tasuku Honjo, surrounded by his team at Kyoto University, immediately after hearing the news that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Tasuku Honjo taking phone interviews on the morning after the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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