Nobel Prize

László Krasznahorkai’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies andGentlemen, I wish to thank the Swedish Academy, and the Nobel Foundation! Thank you! I thank all of my publishers and translators, I thank the building of the Swedish Academy and the dear light falling…

Joel Mokyr’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear laureates,Ladies and gentlemen! On behalf of my co-winners and friends, of the Collège de France and of Brown University, I would like to thank the Nobel Foundation, the  Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) and the Central Bank of Sweden…

Mary E. Brunkow’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professors and , I would like to thank the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation.  On October 6, while I was desperately trying to sleep through the 1:00am scam calls…

Omar M. Yaghi’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear laureates,Ladies and gentlemen— On behalf of my co-laureates , , and myself, I thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Tonight, we celebrate not only achievement but possibility—the power of human…

Michel H. Devoret’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2025 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professor , Professor and myself, we wish to thank The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for the extraordinary honor of this prize.  It is a mystery to me why my…

Korean Han Kang’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. 여덟 살 때의 어느 날을 기억합니다.주산학원의 오후 수업을 마치고 나오자마자 소나기가 퍼붓기 시작했습니다. 맹렬한 기세여서, 이십여 명의 아이들이 현관 처마 아래 모여 서서 비가 그치길 기다렸습니다. 도로 맞은편에도 비슷한 건물이 있었는데, 마치 거울을 보는 듯 그 처마 아래에서도 수십 명의 사람들이 나오지 못하고…

Daron Acemoglu’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellencies,Dear laureates, Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professor Johnson, Professor Robinson, and myself, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for recognizing our work on the origins of economic and political institutions and the…

English Han Kang’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your majesties, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. I remember the day when I was eight years old. As I was leaving my afternoon abacus lesson, the skies opened in a sudden downpour. This rain was so fierce that two dozen children wound…

Gary Ruvkun’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Your Excellencies,fellow Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, Victor Ambros and I gratefully celebrate the Nobel Foundation for its century of magnificent awards. Our discovery of a surprising world of tiny RNAs only 22 nucleotides long – dramatically smaller than any RNAs known at…

David Baker’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and myself, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Many today are worried about what the next few years…