Nobel Prizes 2012

A medal of Alfred Nobel and Swedish flags are seen prior to the Nobel prize awarding ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 2012, in Stockholm, Sweden. The winners of the Nobel Prize 2012 in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics receive their awards from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony, followed by a gala banquet.

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