This project was initiated and overseen by the Consulate General of Sweden and the City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation.
  



 
The Nobel Monument in New York City
Inscription Ceremony 2006
The names of the 2005 American Nobel Laureates were unveiled at a ceremony at the Nobel Monument in Theodore Roosevelt Park in New York City on June 12, 2006. The same event included an announcement of the three NYC high school students who have won the 2006 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest.

The inscription ceremony honored the addition onto the Monument of the names of the 2005 American Nobel Laureates – Roy J. Glauber (Physic), John L. Hall (Physics), Robert H. Grubbs (Chemistry), Richard R. Schrock (Chemistry), Robert J. Aumann (Economics), Thomas C. Schelling (Economics).

The program featured remarks by Professors Richard Schrock and Roy Glauber as well as Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, Consul General of Sweden in New York, who also presented the three winners of the essay competition. The winners were awarded the grand prize – 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 2006 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest are:

Mr. Gena Rozenberg
Winner Physics
Bronx High School of Science, The Bronx
Essay title: "Eric A. Cornell and the Bose-Einstein Condensate"

Ms. Natasha Plotkin
Winner Chemistry
Hunter College High School, Manhattan
Essay title: "Richard Ernst and the Transformation of the NMR Spectroscopy"

Mr. Avishai Don
Winner Medicine
SAR High School, The Bronx
"Karl Landsteiner: Three Simple Letters that Save Millions"

For photos from the ceremony, go to "Press Room"

For more information on The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest:
www.laureatesoftomorrow.org