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Nobel laureate in medicine Michael Houghton received the Nobel Prize at his home in California on Tuesday.
This year’s distribution of Nobel medals and diplomas takes place around the world in low-key ceremonies where the award winners live or work. But the honor is as huge as usual, despite this year’s crown.
Michael Houghton, a British-born Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, received his honors outside his home in Danville, San Francisco, on Tuesday. He is a professor of virology at the University of Alberta in Canada and the director of a research institute there. The Nobel Prize is the reward for research that has made it possible to treat the viral disease hepatitis C, a form of chronic jaundice that affects millions of people each year and causes hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Harvey Alter, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, shares the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He received it from Sweden’s Ambassador, Karin Olofsdotter, at a ceremony in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, where the NIH is located.
Roger Penrose, an 89-year-old British professor at the University of Oxford, shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries about black holes. In 1965, by developing completely new and ingenious mathematical methods, he was able to show that black holes actually exist and are a natural consequence of the laws of nature and the theory of relativity, which its author Albert Einstein did not think was possible in the practice. On Tuesday, Ambassador Torbjörn Sohlström presented medals and diplomas at the Swedish residence in London.
One of the three physics winners is German Reinhard Genzel at the Max Planck Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. With increasingly powerful and advanced telescopes, studies of an area in the middle of the Milky Way for almost 30 years led to the conclusion that there was a black hole. His Nobel prizes were awarded by Ambassador Per Thöresson in Munich on Tuesday.
Americans Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson share the Riksbank economics prize in memory of Alfred Nobel for his research on how auctions work. The proof of his exaltation took place during a sunny outdoor ceremony in Palo Alto, California, with Swedish Consul General Barbro Osher as the distributor on Tuesday.
Already on Sunday, Louise Glück, Nobel Prize in Literature, received her award. The awarding took place in the Laureates’ Garden in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a ceremony led by Consul General Annika Rembe. The winner himself wished to have the ceremony outdoors in the garden, which he shared with his neighbors.
The Nobel laureates have been able to choose whether they want to be indoors or outdoors during the ceremony and whether the guests should attend.
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