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…

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The Nobel Banquets – a century of culinary history by Ulrica Söderlind* Introduction The first Nobel Prize Award Ceremony was held on the 10th of December 1901, capped with a banquet at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. Through the years, the Nobel Banquet has become an affair followed with great interest not only by those…

For most people, attending the Nobel Prize banquet or award ceremony is a once in a lifetime experience – and one with a strict dress code.

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