On December 10, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony took place solemnly in the capital of Oslo, Norway. On the same day, other Nobel prizes were also awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
View of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in City Hall in Norway's capital Oslo.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former US Vice President Al Gore (left) and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by Rajendra Pachauri (right).
Former US Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper attended the awards ceremony in Oslo on December 10.
Al Gore and his wife (left) took a picture with the Norwegian King Harald and Queen Sonja at the royal palace in Olso.
A large number of fans gathered outside the Norwegian parliament building while two Nobel Peace Prize owners were waving from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo.
The cavalry soldiers from the royal guard team blew the horn while the award ceremony took place in City Hall.
Also on December 10, the awarding ceremony for the remaining Nobel prizes such as Physics, Literature, Medicine, Economics and Chemistry took place in Stockholm (Sweden). View of the Nobel Prize ceremony at the Stockholm theater.
Members of the Swedish royal family at the awards ceremony: (from left to right) King Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Madeleine, Princess Victoria and Prince Carl Philip.
Queen Silvia of Sweden in a red costume stands out at the awards ceremony at the Stockholm theater.
King Carl XVI Gustaf (right) awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics to Professor Roger B. Myerson from the University of Chicago (USA).
Professor Albert Fert of France in the reception of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Each award will include a gold medal, a certificate and a sum of $ 1.5 million.
Writer Doris Lessing (pictured), who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, was not present at the awards ceremony due to health conditions.
However, to receive the award instead of the female writer Lessing is daughter Jean Cowen (left) with 2 nieces Anna and Susannah.