King Gustaf unable to present prizes

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33096, 11 December 1972, Page 17

King Gustaf unable to present prizes

t.*’ Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10. Sweden’s 90-year-old King Gustaf Adolf will not make today’s Nobel prize awards, breaking a quarter of a century's tradition. The King’s doctor decided today he was too sick to hand out the prizes. Instead his grandson. Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, aged 25, will make the awards to the II winners from the United States, Britain, and West Germany.

■ The Royal physician, Pro- | fessor Gunnar Biderck, announced today that King ■ Gustaf, Europe’s oldest I Monarch, was suffering from la heavy cold and was rather I tired. For close on a quarter of a century the tall, intellectual King has made the awards. ■ With the last-minute change lof plans he will try to receive the prize-winners and ! their families at the palace ion Monday. The Nobel award winners

iwill each receive a gold ■ medallion and will share ■cash prizes amounting ■ to 2,400,000 kroner (SNZ4SO,OOO>. 1 Besides the Crown Prince, • several members of Scanidinavian Royal families will ;be among the 3000 guests at ■ the ceremony. Because most of the prizes | have been split several ways j this year, only the German novelist, Heinrich Boell, the I winner in literature, will receive one of the 400,000 ;kroner ($NZ88,000) prizes in .'its entirety. ; ! For Dr John Bardeen of i Illinois University, it will be r the second Nobel prize cerer mony. He shared a prize in ■ 1956 for work on transistors. 5 This year he splits the - physics prize with Dr Leon Cooper, of Brown University,; .’ Providence, Rhode Island, /and Dr John Schrieffer, of Pennsylvania University. The youngest of the prize- i winners is 43-year-o!d Dr, ; Gerald Edelman, of New York, who shares the award for research in immunology . with Dr Rodney Porter, of f Oxford University. >1 Dr Stanford Moore, of the I j Rockefeller Institute, New! . York. Dr William Stein, also Jof Rockefeller. and Dr I J Christian Afindsen, of i Bethesda. Maryland, share I the chemistry prize. The economics award, ' . I instituted four years ago. 1 ; goes to Sir John Hiacks, of. Oxford. and Professor i Kenneth Arrow, of Harvard. . Copper ore piecemeal i Thieves used a refuse lorry ■ , to smuggle 25 tons of stolen copper out of the Chuquicamata mine in norihem Chile. • for sale in neighbouring Bolivia and Argentina.—Santiago.' ;Dec. 10. i