In Norwegian Oslo, the laureates will receive the Nobel medals, Nobel diplomas and documents confirming the Nobel Prize amount.
Satyarthi, 60, and Yousafzai, 17, will share USD 1.1 million Peace Prize at Oslo while all the other awards will be presented in Stockholm.
Satyarthi, along with his wife Sumedha, son, daughter- in-law and daughter reached Oslo on Tuesday.
Frenchman Patrick Modiano will be presented the Literature Nobel, US-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband-and-wife duo Edvard and May-Britt Moser Nobel in medicine and Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura the Nobel in Physics.
Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell will share the Nobel in Chemistry while Frenchman Jean Tirole will be presented Nobel for Economics.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented to the Laureates at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. As stipulated in the will of the Swedish-born inventor and international industrialist, the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo.
Since 1969 an additional prize has been awarded at the ceremony in Stockholm, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which was established in 1968 on the occasion of the Riksbank's 300th anniversary.
The Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm has taken place at the Stockholm Concert Hall since 1926. In Oslo, the ceremony was for many years held at the Nobel Institute. From 1947 till 1990, the setting was the auditorium of the University of Oslo. In 1990 the event moved to the Oslo City Hall.
At the ceremony here, presentation speeches will extol the Laureates and their discovery or work, after which King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf will hand each Laureate the diploma and the medal. The ceremony will be followed by a banquet at the Stockholm City Hall for about 1,300 people, including 250 students.
The Nobel Festivities here are arranged by the Nobel Foundation and are primarily an academic celebration focusing on science and literature. In addition to the Nobel Laureates and their families, other members of the Royal Family of Sweden including Queen Silvia will be guests of honour at both the Prize Award Ceremony and the Banquet. Representatives of the Swedish government and Parliament will also participate.
In Oslo, the Nobel Peace Prize will be presented by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, the government, representatives of Storting the supreme legislature of Norway and an invited audience. (SDF/KH)
