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Published online 10 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031208-6

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Nobel protester wins alternative prize

Stockholm ceremony proceeds despite dispute.

A physician's two-month protest about his exclusion from this year's Nobel prizes is set to climax today - with two awards ceremonies on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Physicists Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield will tonight receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

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