And the Nobel Prize for OPULENCE goes to... Swedish royals dust off dazzling jewels for magnificent banquet to honour the ten winners for science, literature and medicine




Princess Madeleine, the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, wore the stunning Aquamarine Koloshnik tiara with her lilac embellished dress as she made her entrance with Nobel Chemistry Prize 2015 co-winner Paul Modrich, from the US
The hall was decked out for the occasion with 20,000 white, yellow and orange flowers which were donated by the Italian city of San Remo, where Swedish scientist and prize creator Alfred Nobel died on December 10, 1896.
The ten laureates received their Nobel diplomas and gold medals from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, in a ceremony interspersed with classical music and presentations by the prize-awarding institutions.
The ceremony took place in front of 1,600 specially-invited guests at Stockholm's Concert Hall,
China's Tu Youyou, William Campbell of the US and Satoshi Omura of Japan received the medicine prize for revolutionary treatments of malaria and roundworm.
Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada were given the physics prize for determining that neutrinos have mass.



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