Swedish exhibition celebrates Nobel Prize centenary
In the year marking the centenary of the Nobel Prize, the King and Queen of Sweden have officially opened a major new exhibition celebrating the achievements of Nobel prize winners through the century. The exhibition, dubbed 'Cultures of creativity: The Centennial exhibition of the Nobel Prize', is housed in Stockholm's old stock exchange, where it will remain until 2004 before moving into a museum building of its own. The exhibition will reflect the history of the Nobel prize with a special focus on the concept of creativity. It uses original artefacts, visual material (photos, archival footage and newly produced films), multimedia and other archive materials to present some 30 Laureates and their creative work. Among the best-known names are Marie Curie, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Selma Lagerlöf, Martin Luther King, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Linus Pauling, Nelson Mandela and Samuel Beckett. But the exhibition also celebrates the overall achievements of more than 700 Laureates who have been awarded Nobel prizes since 1901, in fields ranging from physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, to literature and peace. Winners of the Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel (pictured) are also honoured. This is the country's first ever major exhibition on the Nobel prize and has been produced by the Nobel Museum on behalf of the Nobel Foundation. In addition, to commemorate the centennial of the first Nobel Prizes, all living Laureates have been invited to participate in a centennial week in December in Sweden.
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