Literature laureates Nelly Sachs and Samuel Agnon preparing for the prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1966.

German Nelly Sachs’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Eure Majestät, Eure Königliche Hoheiten, meine verehrten Zuhörer: Im Sommer 1939 reiste meine deutsche Freundin nach Schweden, um aufzusuchen und um ihre Hilfe zu bitten, eine Freistatt für meine Mutter und mich in Schweden zu erwirken. Ich hatte…

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Alfred Kastler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Permettez-moi de vous exprimer ce soir, non pas seulement la gratitude d’un homme, mais celle d’une équipe dont vous avez distingué l’oeuvre collective et que m’a puissamment aidé à former mon collègue et ami Jean Brossel.…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1966 Optical Methods for Studying Hertzian Resonances Pdf 821 kB

Peyton Rous’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: – In 1901 I was a student at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and knew enough to realize the great significance of Alfred Nobel’s effort to aid human progress by giving prizes, and…

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1966 The Challenge to Man of the Neoplastic Cell Tumors destroy man in a unique and appalling way, as flesh of his own flesh which has somehow been rendered proliferative, rampant, predatory and ungovernable. They are the most concrete and formidable of human maladies, yet despite more than 70 years of…

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1966 Endocrine-Induced Regression of Cancers Pdf 100 kB