Nobel Prizes handed Stockholm and Oslo

In the Swedish and Norwegian capitals Saturday awarded the Nobel Prizes.

Groningen professor Bernard Feringa receives in Stockholm Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on molecular nanomachines. He shares the prize, which is endowed with the sum of 930 000, with Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage and the Scotsman James Fraser Stoddart.

Notable absentee at the ceremony is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the American poet and singer Bob Dylan, who claims to have other commitments. He left earlier this week that he is the speech that are traditionally the laureates, has sent to the Nobel Committee, so that someone else can speak.