Child rights activists India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, along with 11 others, will receive this year’s Nobel Prizes today.
Satyarthi, along with his wife Sumedha, son, daughter- in-law and daughter reached Oslo on Tuesday, Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai, 17, will share USD 1.1 million Peace Prize at Oslo while all the other awards will be presented in Stockholm.
Frenchman Patrick Modiano will be presented the Literature Nobel, US-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian husband-and-wife duo Edvard and May-Britt Moser Nobel in medicine and Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura the Nobel in Physics.
Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell will share the Nobel in Chemistry while Frenchman Jean Tirole will be presented Nobel for Economics.
The Nobel Festivities here are arranged by the Nobel Foundation and are primarily academic celebrations focusing on science and literature. In addition to the Nobel Laureates and their families.
In Oslo, the Nobel Peace Prize will be presented by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, the government, representatives of Storting — the supreme legislature of Norway — and an invited audience,