Five cut of the six recipients of this year's Nobel Prizes—two prizes were divided while the Peace Prize mwas not awarded—received to-day heir prizes in the form of cheques contained in red leather portfolios. The prizes each amounted to approximately £10,000 resp. £5,000.
addition to the money, every' Yyeeipient. was presented with an embossed blue leather ease con-Yaining his diploria. The _presentation was made by the King fof Sweden personally in the presence of a distinguished gather. jing of members of the royal jhonse, the diplomatic corps, and pro-sriment representatives "of polities, aeionce and avts, There were. further present the fifty Nobel Prize Judges among which, as the only woman, figured the famous Swedish novelist Selma Lagerloef.
The ceremony was enacted in ity with established practice, the presentation of each prize being: preceded by a lengthy address in the Swedish language, which concluded by the presentation formula being spoken in the recipient's own Janguage. After each address the national anthem.of the recipient was played while representatives of the students of Stockholm University waved the flag of his country and the spectators applauded. Kuo-Min,
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