Nobel Prize

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…

Geoffrey Hinton’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your MajestiesYour Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Nobel committees in Physics and Chemistry have recognized the dramatic progress being made in a new form of Artificial Intelligence that uses artificial neural networks to learn how to solve difficult computational problems. This…

Claudia Goldin’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Distinguished Guests: When the phone rang at 4:30 am and I was told I had 90 minutes to prepare for a press conference, I flung into action. “Larry: Take Pika out.”…

Jon Fosse’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your MajestiesYour Royal HighnessesExcellencesEsteemed LaureatesLadies and gentlemen Many years ago, I saw myself – not in a dream, or in a daydream, more like in a vision – walking along the side of a road leading to the centre of a town. When I…

Katalin Karikó’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences,Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Prof Drew Weissman and myself, we wish to thank the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Foundation for awarding us the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.…

Moungi Bawendi’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Prof. Louis Brus, Dr. Aleksey Yekimov, and myself, we would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for the magnificent honor that this prize confers. We are indebted…