From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.

From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.

From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.

From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955 Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom Pdf 141 kB

Willis E. Lamb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a privilege, an honor and a pleasure to be here tonight. I would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for considering me worthy of their great award. At the…

Polykarp Kusch’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, No previous experience in life has given me the same sense of humility as the present one. This feeling is inevitable in view of the many illustrious names which adorn the roll of those whom…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955 The Magnetic Moment of the Electron Pdf 144 kB

Hugo Theorell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 (in Swedish) Eders Majestäter, Kungliga Högheter, Ärade församling! Jag tror ingen här i dag skulle kunna ha en giltigare reell, om än inte formell anledning än jag att tacka Alfred Nobel for maten. I 19 år har han givit mig och min familj…