Stockholm: India's child rights activists Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and 11 others will be today conferred this year's Nobel Prizes at a glittering ceremony in Norway's capital Oslo.
The ceremony is special for both India and Pakistan as Kailash (60) and Malala (17), respectively, will jointly receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The duo will receive the Nobel medals, Nobel diplomas and documents confirming the Nobel Prize amount, USD 1.1 million.
An elated Satyarthi, who along with his wife Sumedha, son, daughter- in-law and daughter reached Oslo yesterday, said, "I want to dedicate this award to the children of India. This award is for them. It is also for the people of India."
Malala, the youngest-ever Peace Prize recipient, will be joined by friends and former classmates.
Frenchman Patrick Modiano will be presented the Literature Nobel, US-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband-and-wife duo Edvard and May-Britt Moser Nobel in medicine and Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura the Nobel in Physics.
Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell will share the Nobel in Chemistry while Frenchman Jean Tirole will be presented Nobel for Economics.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented to the Laureates at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
As stipulated in the will of the Swedish-born inventor and international industrialist, the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo.
Since 1969 an additional prize has been awarded at the ceremony in Stockholm, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which was established in 1968 on the occasion of the Riksbank's 300th anniversary.
