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This project was
initiated and overseen by the Consulate General of Sweden and the
City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Inscription Ceremony
2005
The names of the 2004 American Nobel Laureates were unveiled at a ceremony at the Nobel Monument in Theodore Roosevelt Park in New York City on June 13, 2005. The same event included an announcement of the three NYC high school students who have won the first-ever The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest.
The inscription ceremony honored the addition onto the Monument of the names of the 2004 American Nobel Laureates – David J. Gross (Physics), H. David Politzer (Physics), Frank A. Wilczek (Physics), Irwin A. Rose (Chemistry), Richard Axel (Medicine), Linda B. Buck, (Medicine) and Edward C. Prescott (Economics).
The program featured remarks by Dr. Richard Axel, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and one of several graduates of New York City public schools who have been awarded Nobel prizes. Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe also participated, as well as Ambassador Kjell Anneling, Consul General of Sweden in New York, who also presented the three winners of the newly established essay competition. The winners will be awarded all-expenses paid trips to the Nobel Week Festivities in Stockholm in December, including the Prize Award Ceremony and the world famous Nobel Banquet.
The winners of the first The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest were:
Mr. Jedtsada Laucharoen
Winner Physics
Horace Mann School, The Bronx
Essay title: "Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Liquefaction of Helium"
Ms. Alina Fradlis
Winner Chemistry
Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island
Essay title: "Paul Berg: Redefining Our World Through Genetics"
Mr. Michael Vishnevetsky
Winner Medicine
Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
Essay title: "Gunter Blobel, 1999 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology/Medicine and Pioneer in Protein Targeting Within/out of the Cell"
The names of the 2004 American Nobel Laureates were unveiled at a ceremony at the Nobel Monument in Theodore Roosevelt Park in New York City on June 13, 2005. The same event included an announcement of the three NYC high school students who have won the first-ever The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest.
The inscription ceremony honored the addition onto the Monument of the names of the 2004 American Nobel Laureates – David J. Gross (Physics), H. David Politzer (Physics), Frank A. Wilczek (Physics), Irwin A. Rose (Chemistry), Richard Axel (Medicine), Linda B. Buck, (Medicine) and Edward C. Prescott (Economics).
The program featured remarks by Dr. Richard Axel, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and one of several graduates of New York City public schools who have been awarded Nobel prizes. Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe also participated, as well as Ambassador Kjell Anneling, Consul General of Sweden in New York, who also presented the three winners of the newly established essay competition. The winners will be awarded all-expenses paid trips to the Nobel Week Festivities in Stockholm in December, including the Prize Award Ceremony and the world famous Nobel Banquet.
The winners of the first The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest were:
Mr. Jedtsada Laucharoen
Winner Physics
Horace Mann School, The Bronx
Essay title: "Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Liquefaction of Helium"
Ms. Alina Fradlis
Winner Chemistry
Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island
Essay title: "Paul Berg: Redefining Our World Through Genetics"
Mr. Michael Vishnevetsky
Winner Medicine
Midwood High School at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
Essay title: "Gunter Blobel, 1999 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology/Medicine and Pioneer in Protein Targeting Within/out of the Cell"
