The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony took place on Thursday evening, with two Japanese scientists receiving this year's prizes, in medicine and physics.
At a ceremony held in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Satoshi Omura, 80, was given his medal and diploma by Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf for his discovery concerning a therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites.
Omura, a professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan, and William Campbell, an Ireland-born research fellow emeritus at Drew University in the United States, shared the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin.