Tomorrow (December 8) come the Nobel lectures. To keep laureates from worrying too much, the Nobel Committee creates a giant smorgasbord of activities all day long December 7.
Then there was the moment when Frank thought the lecture notes inside his computer had vanished–but they hadn’t. Whew.
Tonight, the Swedish Royal Academy of Science treated us all to dinner in yet another lovely light-filled 18th-century space. I had the great pleasure of sitting between Sune Svanberg and Lennart Stenflo.
After dinner, some young Stockholm singers absolutely charmed us with a cappella singing, sometimes funny and othertimes movingly beautiful. Riltons Vanner (Friends of Rilton) are professional singers with a real website and two CDs for sale online. If you get a chance to hear them–well, lucky you!
We were so spellbound we all forgot to worry about anything, even Nobel Prize lectures to be given tomorrow.