1948

Biographical

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was born on 18th November, 1897, the son of Arthur Stuart Blackett. He was originally trained as a regular officer for the Navy (Osborne Naval College, 1917; Dartmouth, 1912), and started his career as a naval cadet (1914), taking part, during the First World War, in the battles of Falkland Islands…

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Banquet speech

Patrick M.S. Blackett’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 The honour which has been bestowed on me by the award by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden of a Nobel Prize for Physics gives me a feeling of deep satisfaction and personal pride. However, I like to think of the…

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Banquet speech

Paul Müller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 (in German) Königliche Hoheit, Meine Damen und Herren, Es ist mir ein Bedürfnis, Ihrem Lande und Ihnen im Namen meines Heimatlandes, der Schweiz, der Stadt Basel, wo ich aufgewachsen und jetzt tätig bin, meiner Firma, der J. R. Geigy A. G., Basel, meiner…

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Banquet speech

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 When I began to think of what I should say to you this evening, I wished only to express very simply my appreciation of the high honour which the has thought fit to confer upon me. But to…

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Bibliography

Works in English Prufrock and Other Observations. – London : Egoist, 1917 Ezra Pound : His Metric and Poetry. – New York : Knopf, 1918 Poems. – Richmond, Surrey : The Hogarth Press, 1919 Ara Vos Prec. – London : Ovid Press, 1920. – Revised as Poems. – New York : Knopf, 1920 The Sacred…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1948 Electrophoresis and Adsorption Analysis as Aids in Investigations of Large Molecular Weight Substances and Their Breakdown Products Pdf 362 kB

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Banquet speech

Arne Tiselius’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 (in Swedish) Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar. Vid denna årligen återkommande fest, då vi hylla Alfred Nobels minne och då årets pristagare få tillfälle att möta eliten av den svenska kulturens representanter, bruka vi ha glädjen att få höra våra långväga…

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Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948 T.S. Eliot Nominated on 7 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 8 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “T.S. Eliot – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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