NOBEL PRIZE AWARD
Presentation Ceremony (Rec. 9 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10. Three Russians, three Americans and a, Briton will today receive three of the 1958 Nobel Prize awards from King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. The Russians. Professors Pavel Cerenkov, Igor Tamm, and Ilya Frank, shared the Physics Prize, and the Americans, Dr. George Beadle, Dr. Edward Tatum, and Dr. Joshua Lederberg, shared the prize for Medicine and Physiology. The Briton, Dr. Frederick Sanger, won the Chemistry Prize A crowd of 2000 is expected to gather in the big modern concert hall with its three galleries and high concave roof to watch the ceremony on .the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel. A fourth Russian, Boris Pasternak. the poet and author, who won the literature award for his novel “Dr. Zhivago,” will not be present. He said he did not wish to accept the prize after he had been severely criticised by the Russian press and then banned from the Soviet Writers* Union. The fifth Nobel award, the Peace Prize, won by Father Georges Ptre.is decided by the Norwegian parliament’s Nobel Committee, and was presented in Oslo.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 17
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