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Cotton & Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry.

A final #NobelPrize post - video of the post-banquet dancing. I hope you've all enjoyed all the photos and videos of the week - I wasn't planning to post so many, but everyone kept asking for more! Well that's it folks - I don't have any left. Back to the real world now. #ozchem

The #NobelPrize banquet ended with dancing in another room upstairs. #ozchem

Photos of our table setting at the #NobelPrize banquet. #ozchem

A short video of the central table at the #NobelPrize banquet. #ozchem

Some shots of the central table at the #NobelPrize banquet. #ozchem

A short 360° video from the #NobelPrize banquet. #ozchem

More general #NobelPrize banquet photos. 2/3 #ozchem

The last event (for us) of the #NobelPrize festivities was the banquet. Some general photos first 1/3. #ozchem

Official photo of Richard's #NobelPrize diploma. #ozchem

A few final photos from the #NobelPrize ceremony stage, with some fella called Alfred. #ozchem

A group photo with Richard and his family (both real and academic) from the #NobelPrize ceremony stage. #ozchem

Some close-ups of the boss's Nobel Medal and Diploma. #NobelPrize #ozchem

Some photos of the boss and his Nobel Medal, taken immediately after the ceremony. #NobelPrize #ozchem

When the #NobelPrize ceremony finished, we were able to make our way onto stage and congratulate Richard in person, which was unexpected but brilliant. #ozchem 1/4

A sneaky video from the crowd of Richard taking his bows during the #NobelPrize ceremony. #ozchem

Some sneaky shots from the crowd during the #NobelPrize ceremony. #ozchem

Matching #MOF cufflinks at the #NobelPrize ceremony. #ozchem

Video of inside the #NobelPrize ceremony, waiting for it to begin. #ozchem

Scenes inside the #NobelPrize ceremony, waiting for it to begin. Yes, that's Angela Merkel sitting directly behind me. #ozchem

Scenes before going into the #NobelPrize ceremony. #ozchem

Some more recent photos I took today of Richard Robson's model donated to the #NobelPrize museum. #ozchem

Slowly sorting through a blizzard of #NobelPrize photos (from myself and others) from the last few days of the Nobel extravaganza. As a start, here are some group photos from the Nobel Concert and Lecture. #ozchem

A few last minute photos before we go in. They cleared the streets for our buses! #ozchem #NobelPrize

Christine’s dress is the show stopper of the night. She, myself and her mum have been conspiring on this for six weeks across two continents! Features the very first “MOF” structure, Richard’s 1989 diamond structure. #NobelPrize #ozchem

Phones are banned during the #NobelPrize ceremony and banquet, so you’ll have to rely on the official pictures. As compensation here’s a sight you’ll never see again. Plus my special MOF cuff links! #ozchem

What it’s like to do your PhD with a future Nobel Prize winner pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/wha...

Richard Robson always had very small research groups and limited, sporadic funding. This has never been better illustrated than by the acknowledgement slides to the Nobel lectures of Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi (only 1 of 4 slides shown below). We punched above our weight! #ozchem #NobelPrize

Official #NobelPrize reception tonight at the Nordiska museet. Lovely enough, but most of us left early, with the marathon day and night ahead of us tomorrow. #ozchem

Should be made of copper, though the lack of counterions explains the high charge (ca. $600AUD)! #ozchem #NobelPrize

More photos of before, during and after the British embassy reception. #ozchem #NobelPrize

More scenes from the British Embassy reception, including newly crowned King Richard! #ozchem #NobelPrize

Reception hosted by the British embassy. Yes, there were cucumber sandwiches! #ozchem #NobelPrize

Scenes from my opening talk of the MOF symposium in Stockholm. Got gate crashed at the end by a couple of Nobel Laureates. Should’ve called security. #ozchem #NobelPrize

“Goodbye old friend”. #NobelPrize #ozchem

Amazing day today - Nobel lectures, followed by the Nobel concert. I was particularly thrilled to see Richard devote a sizable chunk of his Nobel lecture to some of my work, both when I was his student Melb U and later stuff from Monash. Mind blown. #ozchem #NobelPrize

Nobel Concert about to begin. Fancy! #NobelPrize #ozchem

I’m currently under cover pretending to be a physicist, off to see the Physics Nobel lectures before the Chemistry one. I’m sure the bus was full of amazing physicists, but I wouldn’t know. About to get a crash course in quantum physics. #ozchem #NobelPrize

A great benefit of your boss winning a #NobelPrize is that you end up with a 'class reunion'. It has been brilliant catching up with old group members. The camaraderie, the banter was instantaneous, as if there wasn't a 30 gap since many of us had seen each other. #ozchem

Personal artifacts were dropped off at the Nobel museum today by the Chemistry Laureates, and they signed the underside of one of the cafe chairs (as is tradition). Richard’s contribution was his model of the (10,3)-a net, hand made from poly pipe. #ozchem #NobelPrize

See the huddle of middle-aged guys on the right, in their own roped off section outside our hotel? Nobel groupies. Apparently a thing. They’ve been camped there all week. One guy has autographs going back 40 years, which I confess is impressive. #NobelPrize #ozchem

Proof that I’m just a sweet kinda guy…

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Nobel week starts to ramp up with a reception hosted by the Australian Embassy. #ozchem #NobelPrize

On the road to Stockholm…. #NobelPrize #ozchem

To quote one of the extended project team members in the very early planning stages of this: "We're NASA. This is what we're supposed to do." Just matter-of-factly in a telecon trying figure out how do this…

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

David Pope in Canberra Times