Andrea in Stockholm
In December, 2022, Stockholm Sweden was lit up for Nobel Week. Included among the visitors was UCLA’s Andrea Ghez, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.” Captured here are selected moments from an unforgettable week.
Official signing of book of Nobel Prize winners at the Nobel Foundation on December 8, 2022.
Dinner with the King of Sweden at the Royal Palace on December 11, 2022.
Ghez signs the back of a chair that is now part of a collection in the Nobel Prize Museum’s cafe on December 6, 2022.
If you visit, check who signed the bottom of the chair you sit in!
Presentation to students and postdocs at Stockholm University, December 7, 2022.
Ghez with her sons, mom (right) and aunt (left) at a Nobel Prize reception, hosted by the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on December 9, 2022.
Panel discussion on What do the origins of life tell us about the future of life?” at “Nobel Week Dialogue”, a public event held in the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre
Log of first observations taken for the Nobel-prize winner work. This was given in the Nobel Museum as part of the tradition that each laureate an artifact, either professional or personal, to the Nobel Museum. The comment “holly shit” reflects the team’s surprise at how well the experiment worked, in contrast to the skepticism from the community that lead to the first proposal for this work being turned down.
Ghez and Genzel, winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics, being recognized at the Nobel Award Ceremony