“Why does the Sun shine?” is one of those questions asked by curious children to which adults struggle to provide a convincing answer. Hans Bethe received the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing how the Sun behaves like a giant nuclear reactor to produce the vast amount of heat and light that supports life…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Energy Production in Stars Pdf 899 kB

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Hans Bethe’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. I am deeply grateful to you for bestowing on me the Nobel Prize. For many decades this Prize has been regarded as the highest honor which can be awarded to a scientist. I feel quite…

Charles B. Huggins’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I must express the profound gratitude of my family and myself for the distinction with which you honor us tonight. After the nightingales have sung the other birds should be still but…

Works in Spanish Sociologia guatemalteca : El problema social del indio. – Guatemala City Sánchez y de Guise, 1923 Rayito de estrella. – Paris : Imprimerie Française de l’Edition, 1925 La arquitectura de la vida nueva. – Guatemala City Goubaud, 1928 La barba provisoria. – Havana, 1929 Leyendas de Guatemala. – Madrid : Oriente, 1930…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1967 The Development of Retinal Neurophysiology Pdf 93 kB

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George Wald’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Exellencies, Ladies, Gentlemen, and fellow students: A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn’t serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of…