CSUEB professor attends husband's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm
Noa, Saul Perlmutter and Laura Nelson
- December 13, 2011 4:40pm
Reposting from UC Berkeley News
California State University, East Bay Professor Laura Nelson was with her husband, University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab physicist Saul Perlmutter, when he was feted in Stockholm, Sweden, last week before receiving his Nobel Prize medal on Saturday, Dec. 10, during a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
Along with their daughter, Noa, Perlmutter and Nelson joined other newly named Nobelists, their families, friends and colleagues in Stockholm for the start of festivities on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Perlmutter delivered the traditional Nobel Lecture in the Aula Magna at Stockholm University on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
The awards ceremony on Saturday was followed by a gala banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, where Nelson was escorted by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf. View photo.
The official Nobel Week program concluded on Monday, Dec. 12, with individual visits by the laureates to the Nobel Foundation.
Video of Dec. 10 Nobel Prize awards ceremony (133 min.)
Read previous news blog, “Spouse of CSUEB anthropology chair wins Nobel Prize in Physics."
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