John Boyd Orr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong efforts to improve the world’s food situation. Lord Boyd Orr Full name: John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin MearnBorn: 23 September 1880, Kilmaurs, ScotlandDied: 25 June 1971, Edzell, ScotlandDate awarded: 10 December 1949 Father of the FAO John Boyd Orr, a Scottish physician…

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess. Professor Walter Rudolf Hess with his wife arrives to Bromma Airport, Sweden, for the Nobel Week, 6 December 1949.

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1949 Meson Theory in Its Developments Pdf 55 kB

Hideki Yukawa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1949 The Nobel-Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a great benefit not only to myself, but also to all the Japanese, because they were all extremely rejoiced by the decision of the Academy and they were very much encouraged by it…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1949 The Central Control of the Activity of Internal Organs A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken…

Walter Hess’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1949 (in German) Wenn ich so sprechen wollte, wie es mir jetzt ums Herz ist, so käme ich in einige Verlegenheit; denn die Gefühle, die mich bewegen, sind von so ursprünglicher Kraft und Freude, wie man sie eigentlich nur in den Jugendjahren zu erleben…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, December 10, 1949, the speech was held by Mr. Patricio, chargé d’affaires of the Legation of Portugal (in French) Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames, Messieurs, J’ai l’honneur d’adresser au Collège des Professeurs de l’Institut Carolin les remerciements les…

Works in English The Marble Faun. – Boston : Four Seas, 1924 Soldiers’ Pay. – New York : Boni & Liveright, 1926 Mosquitoes. – New York : Boni & Liveright, 1927 Sartoris. – New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1929. – Original, uncut version edited by Douglas Day as Flags in the Dust. – New York…