Nobelprize.org Provides Live HD Quality Webcasts of 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies and Nobel Lectures

By Nobelprize.org, PRNE
Thursday, December 3, 2009

STOCKHOLM, December 4 - Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Foundation, will
provide live webcasts in HD quality of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Award
Ceremony from Oslo, Norway, and the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony from
Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2009. Nobel Lectures on 7, 8 and 10
December will also be webcast live.

Nobelprize.org brings you closer to the 2009 Nobel Laureates as they
receive their Nobel Prizes, by providing live webcasts of the 2009 Nobel
Prize Award Ceremonies and Nobel Lectures as they happen. The schedules and
links for the live webcasts are as follows:

Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies

10 December, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (CET): Nobel Peace Prize Award
Ceremony including the Nobel Lecture from Barack Obama at the Oslo City Hall,
Norway.
nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/ceremony_oslo/video/2009/index.html

10 December, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm (CET): Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the
Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, for the 2009 Nobel Laureates in Physics,
Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Laureates in Economic
Sciences.
nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/ceremony_sthlm/video/2009/index.html

Nobel Lectures

Monday, 7 December at 1:00 p.m.-3.30 p.m. (CET): Nobel Lectures in
Physiology or Medicine

Monday, 7 December 5:30 p.m. (CET): Nobel Lecture in Literature

Tuesday, 8 December 9:00 a.m.-11:05 a.m. (CET): Nobel Lectures in Physics

Tuesday, 8 December 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. (CET): Nobel Lectures in
Chemistry

Tuesday, 8 December 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m. (CET): Prize Lectures in Economic
Sciences

Thursday, December 10, 1:00 p.m. (CET): Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

For the full schedule and titles of the lectures, please visit:

nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/lectures_2009.html

The live video is streamed using Adobe Flash platform and the Content
Delivery Network is provided by Akamai. Kulabyte and Protel have provided the
live streaming encoding for HD quality.

If you would like to embed the Nobelprize.org live video widget within
your web site or blog in order to view the Nobel Lectures, please visit:
nobelprize.org/nobelweb/pressroom/widget/index.html

If YouTube is your preferred channel, visit the NobelPrize YouTube
channel for the live streaming of Nobel Lectures.

www.youtube.com/thenobelprize

If you cannot follow the live webcasts, all ceremonies and Nobel Lectures
will be available as video on-demand 24 hours after the events.

On Nobelprize.org, you can find the background information on all the
2009 Nobel Laureates and their work, including the official documentation
from the Nobel Prize awarding institutions. For further information on these
live webcast services, and for background information on the Nobel Prizes,
visit nobelprize.org.

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inception in 1901 to the present day. Currently receiving well over 38
million visitors a year, Nobelprize.org aims to be the best source of
information and educational materials related to the Nobel Prizes, and the
site offers audio and video interviews, articles and interactive games
alongside coverage of Nobel Prize announcements and the award ceremonies.
Building on this deep base of resources focused around every individual Nobel
Prize, Nobelprize.org aims to offer extra levels of understanding, affording
visitors a larger view of the history of science and exhibiting each prize
within its broader context.

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