Live Streaming of 2011 Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies and Nobel Lectures on Nobelprize.org

STOCKHOLM, November 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

On 10 December, this year's Nobel Laureates will take center stage in Oslo and Stockholm to receive their Nobel Prizes. Wherever you are in the world, you can experience the magic of these prestigious events on Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Prize. Nobelprize.org will stream live the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony from Oslo, which will honor for the first time, three female Laureates who share this year's Prize.  Streamed live from Stockholm, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony is an event where the Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Laureates in Economic Sciences will receive their Nobel Prize medal and diploma from His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

You can learn about the Nobel Laureates' achievements by following the Nobel Lectures live on Nobelprize.org on 7 and 8 December. On 10 December, the Nobel Peace Prize lectures are included in the award ceremony in Oslo.  This year's subjects are fascinatingly diverse ranging from the accelerating expansion of the universe, the discovery of quasicrystals, innate and adaptive immunity, to the translucent images in poetry, women's rights in peace building and cause and effect in the macroeconomy. See the full schedule: http://www.nobelprize.org/

You can embed a live video player for the Nobel Lectures on your web site, blog or social networks.  Get the code:  http://www.nobelprize.org/press/nobelmedia/channels/widget/live.html

The Award Ceremonies and Nobel Lectures will also be available as video on-demand and downloads on Nobelprize.org after the events and short summaries will be posted on the Nobel Prize YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/nobelprize

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