Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

December 8, 2017

SWEDEN- This file photo taken on December 10, 2016 shows Nobel Prize laureates in Physics (left-right) Great Britain's David J Thouless, Great Britain's David J Thouless and Great Britain's John Michael Kosterlitz, in Chemistry (left-right) France's Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Great Britain's Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Netherland's Bernard L. Feringa, Medicine Nobel prize laureate of Japan Yoshinori Ohsumi and for Economic Sciences Oliver Hart of Great Britain and Finland's Bengt Holmström sit in the first row during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Nobel Prize statistics are dour reading for women, who've won only one of every 20 prizes. And while the numbers are slowly improving, the December 10 prize ceremony will be an all-male affair for the second straight year. Jiji Press