Fredrik Bajer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Klas Pontus Arnoldson, for his long-time work for the cause of peace as politicians and peace society leaders. Fredrik Bajer. Full name: Fredrik BajerBorn: 21 April 1837, Næstved, DenmarkDied: 22 January 1922, Copenhagen, DenmarkDate awarded: 10 December 1908 Officer turned peace activist In 1865, Fredrik Bajer…

Klas Pontus Arnoldson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Fredrik Bajer, for their long-time work for the cause of peace as politicians and peace society leaders. Klas Pontus Arnoldson Full name: Klas Pontus ArnoldsonBorn: 27 October 1844, Gothenburg, SwedenDied: 20 February 1916, Stockholm, SwedenDate awarded: 10 December 1908 At peace with Norway Firmly opposed…

Nobel Lecture, December 14, 1908 Colour Photography The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Edmond Becquerel, as is known, gave a first solution though only an imperfect one. Becquerel showed that the colours of the image of the dark room print on a layer of…

English Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1908 World Referendum Like many such legends in many nations, an old Nordic saga tells of a time when the streets were paved with gold without tempting anyone to sin, a time when human beings were good and their customs and laws mild, inspired by the spirit of wisdom. The…

English Nobel Lecture, May 18, 1909 The Organization of the Peace Movement Yesterday was the seventeenth of May, Norway’s great day of national celebration. Today’s date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. I…

Swedish Nobelpris-föredrag, 10 december 1908 Detta föredrag hölls inför Det Norske Stortings Nobelkomité och en särskildt inbjuden församling i Nobelinstitutet i Kristiania den 10 december 1908, sedan årets fredspris blifvit öfverlämnadt i två lika delar, den ena till K.P. Arnoldson, som var närvarande, och den andra till Danmarks regerings representant å den för sjukdom frånvarande…

Norwegian Nobel-foredrag holdt i Det Norske Nobelinstitut den 18de maj 1909 Fredsbevægelsens organisatjon I7de maj, det var igår. Den store natjonale norske festdag. 18de maj, det er i dag. Den burde en gang blive en stor internatjonal festdag. Det er idag 10-årsdagen, siden den förste fredskonference blev åbnet i Haag. Jeg tager det som et…

The immune system is primed to respond to disease-bearing microbes of almost any description, but what was far from clear was exactly what measures it uses to defeat any such attack. The approaches that the two recipients of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine took to uncovering the answer differed in philosophies and…

German Nobel Lecture, March 27, 1909 (short excerpt)   Naturalismus oder Idealismus? Die Erfahrung der Menschheit zeigt gewisse Fragen, die uralt sind und die zugleich sich immer wieder erneuern: uralt sind sie, weil alle Ge­staltung des Lebens eine Antwort über sie in sich trägt, neu werden sie immer wieder, weil die Verhältnisse, an denen jene…

English Nobel Lecture, March 27, 1909 Naturalism or Idealism? The history of mankind knows of certain questions that are at once very old and always new: they are very old because any way of life contains an answer to them, and always new because the conditions on which those ways of life depend are constantly…