05 Oct 2020
Setting it Straight: First Monday in October
Setting it Straight - Issue #27
Written by Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty
The names of the 2020 Nobel Prize winners for Physiology or Medicine will be announced this Monday, to be followed on subsequent days by Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and, finally, Economics on the following Monday. The medals and the certificates for all except the Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, would normally be handed over on 10 December (the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death) at a very formal ‘white tie and tails’ event held in the Stockholm Concert Hall, followed by an elaborate, 1200 person banquet at the town hall. Because of COVID-19, the 2020 Laureates will receive the awards in their home countries, the first ‘away game’ in a 120-year history.