The Nobel Prize 2005

[GrandDuchess]

Another year, another Nobel thread. It is time for the countdown to the Nobel festivities of 2005! Fasten your seatbelts & hold on! :)

[GrandDuchess]

NOBEL PRIZES 2005

# The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren

# The Nobel Prize in Physics - To be announced on Tuesday, October 4 at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest

# The Nobel Prize in Chemistry - To be announced on Wednesday, October 5 at 11:45 a.m. at the earliest

# The Nobel Peace Prize - To be announced on Friday, October 7 at 11:00 a.m.

# The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - To be announced on Monday, October 10 at 1:00 p.m. at the earliest

# The Nobel Prize in Literature - The Swedish Academy will set the date for its announcement later.


For information about everything around Nobel things, I highly recommend the official website of the Nobel Foundation: http://nobelprize.org/

[GrandDuchess]

Press Release: The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

3 October 2005

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2005

jointly to

Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren

for their discovery of

"the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

More infomation:

BBC NEWS: "Nobel for stomach ulcer discovery"

The whole official press release (with info & graphics) by The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet

[Farah Monaco]

I look forward to see what dress and jewels the Queen and princesses will wear

[Lena]

Thank you GrandDuchess for starting the thread. So Nobel-fever is coming over us again. Maybe ONE of the Royal ladies has even decided to wear a new dress (as you see my expecations are low )

I´m pleased with this year´s choice for the award in medicine. Gastric problems are affecting so many, and those two Australians have surely made an effort (with success) to find (one of) the real cause(s).

[soCal girl]

Not to discredit all the brilliant people receiving these awards but I'm mainly looking forward to the royal ladies. I have high expectations this year where every single member of the royal family will be present. My plea to Madeleine is not to have an exam or be sick...:( and for everybody else to be in good health. I'm guessing Madeleine will be wearing her new six-button tiara but do you think her dress will be what she planned on wearing last year? I'm looking forward to a successful, all-present Nobel 2005 . (I also hope Silvia, Victoria, and Lillian have all been wearing repeat dresses in order to save up for a fabulous Nobel dress.)

[LaMinka]

Why are some Nobel festivities in Norway and some in Sweden? Are it going to be a thread on the Nobel festivities on the Norwegian "place" too?

The winner get the prize in Oslo Tower Hall 10th December rigth? and the 11 its a Consert in Oslo Spektrum and the a Party on Grand Hotel with all the artist and the winner.

But What happends in Sweden? A Gala? a dinner?

and btw, who is going to be the host in Oslo Spektrum (Plase not Tom Crusie and Oprah this year too!)

[robby86]

Wow! Is it time for the Nobel countdown already? Does anyone know yet if all the members of the royal family will be in attendance and if not who will be there?

[GrandDuchess]

Originally Posted by LaMinka

Why are some Nobel festivities in Norway and some in Sweden? Are it going to be a thread on the Nobel festivities on the Norwegian "place" too?

The winner get the prize in Oslo Tower Hall 10th December rigth? and the 11 its a Consert in Oslo Spektrum and the a Party on Grand Hotel with all the artist and the winner.

But What happends in Sweden? A Gala? a dinner?

and btw, who is going to be the host in Oslo Spektrum (Plase not Tom Crusie and Oprah this year too!)

What you are referring to is the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Norway. All the other five Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. Every year there is one thread for the Peace Prize in the Norwegian forum, and one thread for the other five of the Nobel Prizes and the festivities taking place in Sweden.

Alfred Nobel was Swedish, and it is his fortune that made and still makes the Nobel Prizes possible. The Nobel Foundation is seated in Stockholm.

All Nobel Prizes (the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Economic Sciences), except the Peace Prize, are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden on the culmination of the Nobel Week on 10 December every year - Aldred Nobel's death anniversary.

When Alfred Nobel wrote his will - Norway was still Swedish. And Nobel was a man who believed in the union, so in his will he appointed the Norwegian Parliament to select the The Norwegian Nobel Committee who would take care of the Nobel Peace Prize which was instituted together with the other Nobel Prizes in his memory after his death.

On the 10th of December every year, there is a grand Award Ceremony in the Concert Hall for the Laureates of the five Nobel Prizes, and later the same evening there's a lavish and grand Banquet in the City Hall where the Royal Family takes part. And after the Nobel Day, usually on the 11th of December I think, the King hosts a dinner for the Nobel Laureates and their families at the Royal Palace.

You can read more about Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prizes and everything else on the Nobel Foundation's official website.

Originally Posted by robby86

Wow! Is it time for the Nobel countdown already? Does anyone know yet if all the members of the royal family will be in attendance and if not who will be there?

Oh yes, for all of us Nobel lovers it's indeed time for the countdown! :)

I don't think we know anything about the attendance of the Royal Family at the festivities yet, I guess we'll have to wait a while for that to be known...

[Gita]

Since the Nobel is on a Saturday this year hopefully the whole of the Royal Family can attend.:)

[rop81]

with all those recycled dresses that the female part of the royal family has worn this year, one could hope for something new at nobel, but we have had these hopes before...:(

I hope that Victoria will wear either the cannaugh tiara or the amethyst tiara this year.

[soCal girl]

Originally Posted by rop81

I hope that Victoria will wear either the cannaugh tiara or the amethyst tiara this year.

Yes, let's hope for a change in tiara. It's not that I'm completely against the Four Button Tiara but it's been used so many times! Also, if Madeleine is wearing the Six Button Tiara, let's hope they don't decide to coordinate. But would Victoria wear the Connaught Diamond Tiara? It seems to be a particular favorite of Silvia's. Has Victoria ever worn the Amethyst Tiara to a Nobel?

[HMQueenElizabethII]

Originally Posted by soCal girl

Yes, let's hope for a change in tiara. It's not that I'm completely against the Four Button Tiara but it's been used so many times! Also, if Madeleine is wearing the Six Button Tiara, let's hope they don't decide to coordinate. But would Victoria wear the Connaught Diamond Tiara? It seems to be a particular favorite of Silvia's. Has Victoria ever worn the Amethyst Tiara to a Nobel?

I don't think Victoria will wear the Connaught Diamond Tiara at the moment maybe in the future Queen Silvia will give to Victoria maybe on her Wedding Day? But the Connaught seems has been Queen Silvia's favourite for long time and she loves to wear it really much.

[Australian]

Congrats to the two Australians for their Nobel Prize win!

[GrandDuchess]

Press Release: The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics

4 October 2005

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2005 with one half to

Roy J. Glauber

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"

and one half jointly to

John L. Hall

JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA and

Theodor W. Hänsch

Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique".

The whole official press release by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

[GrandDuchess]

Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

5 October 2005

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to

Yves Chauvin

Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France,

Robert H. Grubbs

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA and

Richard R. Schrock

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis".

The whole official press release by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

[norwegianne]

There has been created a Nobel Peace Prize thread in the Norwegian forum: http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...d.php?p=296983 for the Norwegian discussion of Nobel 2005.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei.

[sm1939]

why do they do the nobel peace prize in Norway
and the rest in swden , why dont do them all together???
if someone has already informed us why on this thread ...Im sorry

[Layla1971]

Originally Posted by sm1939

why do they do the nobel peace prize in Norway
and the rest in swden , why dont do them all together???
if someone has already informed us why on this thread ...Im sorry

Grand Duchess posted this info in an above post:

"What you are referring to is the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Norway. All the other five Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. Every year there is one thread for the Peace Prize in the Norwegian forum, and one thread for the other five of the Nobel Prizes and the festivities taking place in Sweden.

Alfred Nobel was Swedish, and it is his fortune that made and still makes the Nobel Prizes possible. The Nobel Foundation is seated in Stockholm.

All Nobel Prizes (the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Economic Sciences), except the Peace Prize, are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden on the culmination of the Nobel Week on 10 December every year - Aldred Nobel's death anniversary.

When Alfred Nobel wrote his will - Norway was still Swedish. And Nobel was a man who believed in the union, so in his will he appointed the Norwegian Parliament to select the The Norwegian Nobel Committee who would take care of the Nobel Peace Prize which was instituted together with the other Nobel Prizes in his memory after his death.

On the 10th of December every year, there is a grand Award Ceremony in the Concert Hall for the Laureates of the five Nobel Prizes, and later the same evening there's a lavish and grand Banquet in the City Hall where the Royal Family takes part. And after the Nobel Day, usually on the 11th of December I think, the King hosts a dinner for the Nobel Laureates and their families at the Royal Palace.

You can read more about Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prizes and everything else on the Nobel Foundation's official website."

Hope it answers your question.

[Josefine]

and here are a few old Nobel threads

The Nobel Prize thread - history Live Video clips from party
Video Clips from the Nobel Prize - All Years

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony & Banquet throught the years
The Nobel Festivities Through the Years

Nobel 2002
The Nobel Prize 2002

Nobel 2003
The Nobel Prize 2003

Nobel 2004
The Nobel Prize 2004

The big fat NPA 2004-guessing-thread
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...ead.php?t=4096

Crown Princess Victoria Nobel Tiara and Dress Nostalgia
Crown Princess Victoria's Eveningwear 1: October 2003 - December 2008

Madeleine - Tiara & Dress Nobel Nostalgia
Princess Madeleine Fashion and Style Part 1: September 2003 - Ausgust 12, 2009

Queen Silvia's Nobel Tiara and Dress Nostalgia
Queen Silvia's Fashion and Style Part 1: November 2002 - December 2009