San Francisco Celebrates The Nobel Prize Centennial with HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.News Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001 Her Royal Highness “HRH” redirects here. For other uses, see HRH (disambiguation). Royal Highness (abbreviation HRH) is a style (His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness); plural Royal Highnesses (abbreviation TRH, Crown Princess Victoria Princess Victoria can mean: Princesses Princess Victoria and/or Princess Viktoria is the name of several princesses. The name came into wide-spread use among royal families during the reign of Queen Victoria, who requested that Victoria be among the names of Sweden will attend San Francisco's version of Stockholm's traditional Nobel Banquet on Saturday evening, October 27 at San Francisco City Hall The City Hall of San Francisco California, opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief "City Beautiful" movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. and honor California Nobel Laureates. The formal banquet is the culmination of the California Nobel Prize Centennial organized by the Consulates General of Sweden in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Commenting on the California Nobel Prize Centennial, San Francisco Consul General Barbro Osher said, "Together with the Consulate General in Los Angeles, we are proud that the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Stanford, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , Caltech, the Exploratorium, the California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State , KQED, and the California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science (COSMOS) have joined us in this celebration. This banquet will mirror Stockholm's annual Nobel Banquet on December 10 at the Stadshuset, Stockholm's City Hall on the harbor. Along with traditional festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. , we are featuring menu selections from historic Nobel banquets." Mumm Napa Valley Blanc de Blancs will be poured for the formal toast honoring Alfred Nobel, and Gallo of Sonoma wines will complement the elegant four-course repast. San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown will escort the Crown Princess from the grand staircase at City Hall, followed by 23 Nobel Laureates. Barbro Osher, and San Francisco's Chief of Protocol and banquet co-Mistress of Ceremonies, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, will make welcoming remarks, along with State Senator Charles Poochigian, Ambassador Jan Eliasson of Sweden, and Ambassador Knut Vollebaek of Norway. A trumpet fanfare by the Trumpeters This article lists notable musicians who have played the trumpet, cornet or flugelhorn. Classical players
The banquet will benefit the California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science (COSMOS), designed and administered by the University of California for high school students who excel in those disciplines. "Nobel Laureates could be no finer role models for COSMOS students to emulate," remarked Gayle Wilson, who will attend with her husband, Pete Wilson. The former First Lady of California, who has been instrumental in the development and planning of the California Nobel Centennial, has a science background and helped marshal legislation to create COSMOS. The centennial celebration will establish the California Nobel Prize Centennial Legacy Scholarship fund for students enrolled in COSMOS. The program will allow young people to pursue their interest in the sciences, reflecting Alfred Nobel's vision more than 100 years ago when he created the first truly international prize, not only for scientific breakthroughs, but also as an inspiration to new generations of scientists. California has the largest concentration of Nobel Laureates in the world, more than 100, with the addition of four new laureates announced for 2001 who are associated with California universities and research institutions. Over the past decade, nearly 25 percent of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to California Laureates. The California Nobel Prize Centennial Celebration program has honored Nobel Laureates and their discoveries, inventions and vast contributions to society. Amgen, Beckman Foundation, BP, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, Kavli Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, Northrop Grumman, Sun Microsystems, Inc., TIAA-CREF TIAA-CREF Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund , and the Winnick Family Foundation have generously underwritten the statewide program, which included academic symposia in Los Angeles and San Francisco, a student Nobel Essay Contest for junior high and high school students, and an ongoing interactive information kiosk program designed for science center venues by the Nobel e-Museum in Stockholm. October 2001 was proclaimed by Governor Gray Davis "California Nobel Laureate Month." For additional information, see www.calnobel.org or contact Ulla Reilly at 415/788-2734 for inquiries about the banquet. |
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