Nobel Prizes will be presented today in Norway and Sweden

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Ferenc Krausz receives Nobel Prize in Physics

The Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz is expected to accept the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm today, Sunday, shortly after 4:15 p.m. One year after the Nobel Prize in Physics went to the Viennese quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger, an Austrian citizen was once again awarded the Nobel Prize by the Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustaf the Nobel Prize medal and certificate. The award ceremony and the subsequent banquet follow a strict protocol.

This is how the ceremony goes

Around 1,500 guests are invited to the award ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall, which begins at 4 p.m. The dress code requires tailcoats for men and evening dresses for women.

Around 90 people sit on the stage: opposite King Carl XVI. Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel sit this year’s ten prize winners in the front row – starting with the physics laureates Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, next to the chemistry prize winners Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Yekimov. Following in the series are Nobel Prize winner in Medicine Katalin Karikó and her co-laureate Drew Weissman, then Literature Prize winner Jon Fosse and finally the winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin. Previous winners take their seats behind them.

Members and representatives of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute, the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation will also be on stage.

Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia sit in the front rows of the audience. The families of the award winners, members of the Swedish government and the Riksdag as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps can also be found there. Education Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) has also announced that he will take part in the award ceremony.

The solemn ceremony begins with drum roll, the entry of the royal family and the Swedish royal song “Kungssången”. This is followed by a speech by the Chairwoman of the Nobel Foundation, Astrid Söderbergh Widding.

Physicists will receive their Nobel Prizes first, followed by awards for chemistry, medicine, literature and economics. The winners of the individual categories will be introduced in short presentations. In between there are musical interludes played by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The ceremony in the concert hall will end with the Swedish anthem at around 5:15 p.m.

The participants don’t have much time to catch their breath; the banquet continues at 7 p.m. in Stockholm City Hall, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. 113 guests were invited to the first Nobel banquet in 1901; this year there are around 1,250.

The royal family, the Nobel Prize winners and their partners as well as other guests of honor sit at the 88-seat table of honor in the middle of the Blue Hall. Krausz sits next to Astrid Söderbergh Widding, who sits right next to the king, and opposite Prince Daniel. Minister Polaschek is also invited to the table of honor.

The traditional banquet opens with the fanfare-accompanied entry of the royal family and guests of honor, including the Nobel Prize winners and their partners. The first glass of champagne at 7:13 p.m. is followed by two fanfare-initiated toasts: a toast to the king and one in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Swedish chef Jacob Holmström is responsible for the first course, served at 7:30 p.m., and the main course of the evening (8:32 p.m.), while Annie Hesselstad takes care of dessert (9:45 p.m.). What will be placed on the 60 or so tables in the Blue Hall will only be announced shortly before the banquet. “The inspiration and ingredients for the menu come from the sea and the nature of Sweden and Norway,” it says in advance.

There are music and singing performances between courses. Usually the guests are only asked to dance in the Golden Hall after dinner, but this year they want to immerse themselves musically in “grooves or rhythms”, for example with the participation of the Swedish jazz and funk band Blacknuss, and “try to make them feel different “Guests feel like they’re dancing while they’re still sitting at their tables,” says the Nobel Foundation. In addition to radio rhythms, musicians from the Västerås Sinfonietta, a Swedish girls’ choir from Västerås and opera singer Elisabeth Meyer provide the musical accompaniment.

The coffee is then followed by acceptance speeches from this year’s Nobel Prize winners, each from a representative of the individual categories. Anne L’Huillier will take over this task from the physicists. At 11 p.m. guests will be signaled that they may rise from their seats. For those still able, the Laszlo Royale Dance Orchestra offers dance music in the Golden Hall of the Town Hall.

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