1957

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Lester Bowles Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis. Lester Bowles Pearson Full name: Lester Bowles PearsonBorn: 23 April 1897, Toronto, CanadaDied: 27 December 1972, Ottawa, CanadaDate awarded: 3 October 1957 UN forces for peace…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 The Relationships between Isosterism and Competitive Phenomena in the Field of Drug Therapy of the Autonomic Nervous System and that of the Neuromuscular Transmission Pdf 373 kB

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Banquet speech

Daniel Bovet’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 (in French) Maestà, Signori Accademici, Eccellenze, Signore e Signori, E’ per me ragione di gioia profonda trovarmi nouvamente in Svezia, questo grande paese legato per tanti motivi all’Italia e con cui io stcsso ho così profondi vincoli di amicizia e, oggi, di riconoscenza.…

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Bibliography

Works in French L’envers et l’endroit. – Alger : Charlot, 1937 Noces. – Alger : Charlot, 1939 L’étranger. – Paris : Gallimard, 1942 Le mythe de Sisyphe. – Paris : Gallimard, 1942 Le malentendu ; Caligula. – Paris : Gallimard, 1944 Lettres à un ami allemand. – Paris : Gallimard, 1945 La peste. – Paris…

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Banquet speech

Lord Todd’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I find it hard to express adequately my appreciation of the honour which has been done me – for surely the bestowal of a Nobel Prize is the greatest honour a man of…

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Acceptance Speech

Lester Bowles Pearson’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1957 May I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your very kind and generous words. I am sorry that I am not sufficiently educated to have understood them in Norwegian but I was able to detect…

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