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Less razzmatazz, but Nobel Prizes go ahead amid coronavirus pandemic
STOCKHOLM : By , Sept 26 (Reuters) - The winners of this year's Nobel Prizes will miss out on a swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden's glitterati, but 2020 will at least not be added to the war years when no awards were given.Yet as the coronavirus pandemic rapidly enveloped much of the world earlier this year, that was far from certain."When we were thinking about this in March and April this year, we were worried that it wouldn't be possible to award any prizes at all," Lars Heikensten, head of the Nobel Foundation that administers the prizes founded by dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, told Reuters.While Sweden has not imposed a rigid lockdown like many European countries, Heikensten said the committees that decide the