Avi Blizovsky, the editor of the site, reports from the Nobel events in Stockholm
Earlier this evening, the opening ceremony of the awarding ceremony of the Nobel Prizes in the various fields was held. Avi Blizovsky reports directly from Stockholm: "The event was very impressive. Hershko's gesture to Rose by escorting him to the podium was extremely impressive, and it was accompanied by thunderous applause."
The experts from the academy read detailed reasons for the wins in the various fields and the importance of the discoveries and explanations. In chemistry, the prize was awarded for the discovery and description of the ubiquitin system, in physics for the strong force and asymptotic freedom, in medicine for the olfactory system, and in economics for the behavior of business cycles (the details of the reasons will appear in the coming days).
The chairman of the board of directors of the award, Professor Samuel Benguet, spoke about the relative minority of women among the recipients of the award. In the fields of science, women make up only two percent of the winners from 1901 until today. When you also look at the fields of literature and economics, women make up four percent of all winners.
Benguet explains the minority of women among the recipients of the award by the fact that in the past women were not able to get professorships in the academy. From the middle of the twentieth century the situation began to change, and in recent years we are beginning to see the fruits of this change. We see more and more winners of the award, and the change signifies a new direction.
Benguet said (in a free translation), that "the history of the Nobel Prize is a reflection of science and culture in the twentieth century. A mirror reflects reality, even if you don't always agree with it. To some extent the prize reflects the man Alfred Nobel in the XNUMXs. He brought the thought perception in the fields of peace, science and culture of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century. Today, over a century later, these ideas take on a strong meaning."
Today the traditional dinner is held, which will last four hours. More updates later.
