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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm very sympathetic to the winner than didn't attend because of Stage Fright.
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While this is not an example of non attendance, Richard Feynman in his autobiography
Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman gives an account of the reasons for his initial personal reluctance to attend to receive the Physics Prize and he was a very outgoing character. In the end he did attend and he describes what turned him around. It made interesting reading.