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Charles Albert Gobat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his remarkable administration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He shared the prize with Elie Ducommun. Albert Gobat Full name: Charles Albert GobatBorn: 21 May 1843 in Tramelan, SwitzerlandDied: 16 March 1914 in Bern, SwitzerlandDate awarded: 10 December 1902 Interparliamentarian and organiser Albert Gobat received the Nobel Peace…

Élie Ducommun was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his untiring and skillful directorship of the International Peace Bureau. He shared the prize with Charles Albert Gobat. Élie Ducommun Full name: Élie DucommunBorn: 19 February 1833 in Geneva, SwitzerlandDied: 7 December 1906 in Bern, SwitzerlandDate awarded: 10 December 1902 Idealist in the cause of peace…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1902 Researches on Malaria Pdf 795 kB

Ronald Ross’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1902 Your Royal Highnesses, grefve Mörner and gentlemen, I beg to thank you for the very great honour you have done me in drinking to my health this evening; and you, Professor Mörner, for the eloquent and flattering terms in which you proposed the…

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Nobel Lecture, May 16, 1904 The Futility of War Demonstrated by History War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. Since all assertions must be carefully examined in order to benefit from…

Nobel Lecture, July 18, 1906 The Development of the Hague Conventions of July 29, 1899 It will soon be seven years since the ninth Interparliamentary Conference met here in your capital city. It was a notable assembly whose participants will long remember the magnificent hospitality of Norway. Some time before that meeting the official representatives…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1902 Syntheses in the Purine and Sugar Group Pdf 126 kB