Today the Nobel Peace Prize was announced. You can read everything else in the news 
Fortunately at least two categories didn’t go to Americans.
Maybe this situation is going to change now. Germany has chosen among its universities 3 „elite“ universities which are specially subsidised. And my former university, the University of Karlsruhe, is one of them.
So, as an ex-Ivy-League student, I post this nice photo of the room in front of the press conference room in the Royal Academy of Sciences. It is a panoramic shot, thus the small mistakes at some points.