MOSCOW, December 10 The ceremony for awarding the 2023 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics was held on Sunday in the concert hall of the Swedish capital Stockholm, broadcast on the Nobel Committee website.
The ceremony was attended by the Swedish royal family. The awards were presented to all laureates personally by King Charles XVI of Sweden. The hall was decorated with yellow flowers and guests could enjoy many musical performances.
At the beginning of October, the Nobel Committee announced the 2023 prize winners. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Kraus and Anne L'Huillier for developing methods to study the behavior of electrons in matter.
The Chemistry Prize was awarded to Alexey Ekimov, a native of the USSR, Louis Bruce and Mungi Bavendi for the discovery and synthesis of nanometer semiconductor crystals — the so-called quantum dots, which are increasingly used in many areas, including medicine.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, which many experts consider unsafe for health.
Norwegian writer Jun Fosse has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose that “give voice to the inexpressible.”
American professor Claudia Goldin has become a laureate of the State Bank of Sweden Alfred Nobel Prize for 2023. The prize is awarded for «deepening understanding of women's outcomes in the labor market.»
Earlier on Sunday, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony was held in Oslo, awarded in 2023 to activist and vice-president of human rights organization in Iran Nargis Mohammadi «for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all «. Mohammadi is currently serving a prison sentence. The activist's Nobel lecture, written in prison, was read by her children Kiana and Ali Rahmani. They received a gold medal and a diploma instead of their mother.
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