Nobel Prizes 2015

[Jacque67 7,328]

STOCKHOLM

The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony took place on Thursday evening, with two Japanese scientists receiving this years prizes in medicine and physics.

At a ceremony held in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Satoshi Omura, 80, was given his medal and diploma by Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf for his discovery concerning a therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.

Omura, a professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan, and William Campbell, an Ireland-born research fellow emeritus at Drew University in the United States, shared the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin.

Tu Youyou, a Chinese national and chief professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, also won the Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug against malaria.

Another Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita, 56, and Canadas Arthur McDonald, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, received their prize for their discovery of neutrino oscillations demonstrating that neutrinos have mass.

Kajita is a professor at the University of Tokyo and director of the universitys Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, and McDonald is a professor emeritus at Queens University in Canada.

Omura and Kajita brought the total number of Japanese Nobel laureates to 24 including Shuji Nakamura, who was born in Japan and later became an American citizen.

Meanwhile, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quarter received the Nobel Peace Prize at a separate ceremony in Oslo for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

In a rare move, Japanese survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were invited to the ceremony as guests.

Emiko Okada, 78, from Hiroshima and Shohei Tsuiki, 88, from Nagasaki attended the event.

© KYODO

0

Back to top

Order by Time Order by Popularity

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

In a rare move, Japanese survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were invited to the ceremony as guests.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

The Nobel prizes lost all credibility years ago

[Sousuke 1,214]

In a rare move, Japanese survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were invited to the ceremony as guests.

?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

The Nobel prizes lost all credibility years ago

Let me guess, cause they gave it to Prissy...

?

We had a row here a few months back when it came to the apologies for Hiroshima.

[Rob L 3,811]

The Nobel prizes lost all credibility years ago

And your alternative?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

And your alternative?

Do we need one

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3354970/Swedish-royals-dust-dazzling-jewels-magnificent-Nobel-Prize-banquet.html#socialLinks

Just noticed Mr Kajita got lucky and was escorted by the former "bikini model "

[Expat1 971]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3354970/Swedish-royals-dust-dazzling-jewels-magnificent-Nobel-Prize-banquet.html#socialLinks

Just noticed Mr Kajita got lucky and was escorted by the former "bikini model "

The Japanese are famous for "luck via escort"

[Jacque67 7,328]

The Japanese are famous for "luck via escort"

Google Princess Sofia and snake for pics pre-marriage;)

[Póg mo 1,749]

The Nobel prizes lost all credibility years ago

Rejected your application, did they?

[Operator 1,927]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3354970/Swedish-royals-dust-dazzling-jewels-magnificent-Nobel-Prize-banquet.html#socialLinks

Just noticed Mr Kajita got lucky and was escorted by the former "bikini model "

I bet she added some mass to his little nutrino....wink, wink, nod, nod.

[Boiler 45,730]

Obama did not win the Peace award?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Oops. Upload failure

Edited December 11, 2015 by Jacque67

[Jacque67 7,328]

Obama did not win the Peace award?

Perhaps, but Mr Kajita got awarded the piece.