Nobel Prize

Percy W. Bridgman receiving his Nobel Prize from the hands of King Gustav V of Sweden, 10 December 1946.

John Raleigh Mott was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries. He shared the prize with Emily Greene Balch. John R. Mott Full name: John Raleigh MottBorn: 25 May 1865, Livingston Manor, NY, USADied: 31 January 1955, USADate awarded: 14 November 1946 Christian fellowship…

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Emily Greene Balch was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her lifelong work for the cause of peace. She shared the prize with John Raleigh Mott. Emily Greene Balch Full name: Emily Greene BalchBorn: 8 January 1867, Jamaica Plain, MA (now Boston, MA), USADied: 9 January 1961, Cambridge, MA, USADate awarded: 14 November 1946 Radical peace…

In the first half of the 20th century, crystallization of small simple molecules had become a vital process in understanding their chemical nature, but could crystallization also help in understanding the chemical nature of vital processes? Three scientists overcame the barrier of crystallizing proteins in different ways, and for their achievements they shared the Nobel…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1946 General Survey of Certain Results in the Field of High-Pressure Physics Pdf 153 kB

Percy W. Bridgman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 It is my pleasant duty on behalf of my colleagues in physics, Messrs. and , as well as on my own behalf, to express our deep appreciation and gratitude for the high honor that has been bestowed upon us. It is, I…

Hermann J. Muller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: We scientists feel as if we had a little glimpse into the millennium when we visit Sweden and see what encouragements and what a high place of honor are accorded to the scientific way of life…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1946 The Production of Mutations If as Darwin maintained the adaptiveness of living things results from natural selection, rather than from a teleological tendency in the process of variation itself, then heritable variations must, under most conditions, occur in numerous directions, so as to give a wide range of choice for…

Nobel Lecture, April 7, 1948 Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism It is natural to try to understand one’s own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are…