The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Thursday to four organisations that helped save Tunisia’s transition to democracy through dialogue, a method the laureates are keen to see applied in Syria and Libya.
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“Today we are most in need to make the fight against terrorism an absolute priority, which means perseverance on the coordination and cooperation between all nations to drain its resources and isolated from the incubators”, Abassi said to the crowd of politicians and intellectuals before accepting the prize. After the ceremony, the Nobel laureates attended a banquet in their honor hosted by Gustaf. Addressing the audiences of 1,000 people, together with royalty, authorities members & foreign dignitaries, Kullmann 5 described as “dramatic” the narrative behind this yr’s peace prize.
Angust Deaton, who was awarded the prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, said he became economist by accident as he drifted from one topic to another, adding he was helped in his career by distinguished mentors.
Before the ceremony, Mr Abassi said the prize would be displayed at Tunisia’s Bardo Museum where 21 foreigners were killed in an extremist attack.
Last year, a demonstrator carrying a Mexican flag disrupted the Nobel ceremony at Oslo City Hall when Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai and Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi received their Nobel Peace Prizes.
Takaaki Kajita from Japan and Arthur McDonald from Canada were awarded the physics prize for determining that neutrinos have mass, a key piece of the puzzle in understanding the cosmos.
An irish scientist will be presented with the Nobel Prize for Medicine at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden later today.
This year’s award was collected at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital by members of four organizations, representing unions, industry, trade and human rights.
The Nobel Prize consists of a gold medal, a diploma and the sum of 8 million Swedish kronor.
The chemistry prize winners, Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich & U.S.-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar, have been cited for his or her determination in to the best way cells fix broken DNA.
Belarussian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich was given the literature prize for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.
On Monday, during the Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine, Tu made a keynote speech titled “Artemisinin – a gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to the world”, recalling the fascinating story she and her research team, despite various challenges, successfully found the malaria cure.
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Police in the two countries had increased the already tight security surrounding the events since the Paris attacks, but gave no details. He was quickly whisked away by a guard. “(The situations) in the neighbouring countries need to be resolved through dialogue with civil society, with political society, and of course putting aside the terrorist factions”, he said.
