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This year’s Nobel Prize laureates will receive awards in their countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organizers said.
Only representatives of the local audience will be able to attend the ceremony in Stockholm, scheduled for December 10, and the fate of the event in Oslo has not yet been decided.
A number of events of the “Nobel week” will be held, including in an online format.
“The laureates will receive medals and diplomas of the Nobel Prize in their countries. The awards will be combined with an award ceremony at the Stockholm City Hall with the participation of the local public. The Norwegian Nobel Committee still leaves open the possibility of hosting the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Oslo. In mid-October, the committee will announce the format of the Nobel Prize celebration in Oslo, ” the press release says.
Earlier АиФ.ги he wrote about how the Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, lived, whose 140th birthday was celebrated this year.