In an exceptional situation, an exceptional decision. For the first time since 1956, the traditional Nobel Prize banquet, a prestigious dinner organized each year in December with the laureates in Stockholm, has been canceled due to the pandemic. The prizes themselves will still be awarded in October, the Nobel Foundation announced on Tuesday.
The award ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo on December 10 are also being maintained but will take place "in new forms," said the Foundation in a press release sent to AFP.
Nobel and social distancing
"The Nobel Foundation plans to be able to maintain the award ceremonies in Oslo and Stockholm in new forms that will take into account the restrictions related to social distancing and the fact that only a few or none of the laureates will be able to participate on site. », She indicates.
The announcement of the prices (Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, then Economy) themselves is maintained on the dates scheduled between October 5 and 12, further specifies the Foundation.
The Nobel banquet had been canceled during the two world wars. It was also not held in 1907, 1924 and 1956, said a spokeswoman. The last cancellation of the banquet in 1956 was aimed at not inviting the Soviet ambassador due to the suppression of the Budapest uprising, she told AFP.
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