Léon Jouhaux was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifelong struggle for the promotion of social justice and workers’ rights. Léon Jouhaux Full name: Léon JouhauxBorn: 1 July 1879, Paris, FranceDied: 28 April 1954, Paris, FranceDate awarded: 5 November 1951 Social justice leads to peace Léon Jouhaux grew up poor in a Paris suburb. His…

Pär Lagerkvist after receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf at the award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 1951. Pär Lagerkvist ca 1951.

Glenn T. Seaborg standing in front of the Periodic Table with the Ion Exchanger illusion column of Actnide Elements, May 19, 1950. Chemistry laureate Glenn T. Seaborg (middle) and his wife Helen converse with physics laureate Manne Siegbahn during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 9 December 1951.

Ernest T.S. Walton’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 The Artificial Production of Fast Particles Pdf 392 kB

John Cockcroft’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The award of the Nobel Prize is the greatest honour which can come to a member of the scientific world and I hardly need tell you how proud I am and with what…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 Experiments on the Interaction of High-Speed Nucleons with Atomic Nuclei Pdf 501 kB

Max Theiler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To have been considered worthy of receiving the Nobel Prize – the highest honor that any scientist can receive – gives me a feeling of great personal satisfaction. Such tangible evidence that my work has…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 The Development of Vaccines against Yellow Fever The study of yellow fever may be divided into two periods. The first one occurred at the turn of the century when Walter Reed and his co-workers showed by the use of human volunteers that the causative agent of this disease was a…

French Conférence Nobel, prononcé à Oslo le 11 décembre 1951 Cinquante ans d’action syndicale en faveur de la paix Mesdames, Messieurs, Je ne vous surprendrai certainement point en vous assurant qu’une des plus profondes émotions de ma vie, une des plus heureuses aussi, me fut causée le lundi soir 5 novembre 1951 par ce journaliste…