1969

Photo gallery

ILO Director General David A. Morse receives the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Labour Organization from Mrs Aase Lionaes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in the auditorium of the University of Oslo on 10 December 1961. ILO Director General David A. Morse receives the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf…

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Speed read

The International Labour Organization (ILO) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the creation of international conventions improving the working conditions and social rights of employees in every country. Full name: International Labour OrganizationNative name: International Labour OrganizationFounded: 1919, Geneva, SwitzerlandDate awarded: 20 October 1969 Social justice promotes peace Fifty years after its creation at the…

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Banquet speech

Murray Gell-Mann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1969 Symmetry and Currents in Particle Physics [Professor Gell-Mann has presented his Nobel Lecture, but did not submit a manuscript for inclusion in this volume.]

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview, Professor Murray Gell-Mann. Murray Gell-Mann: Well, thank you. Actually I don’t know, maybe I could speak Swedish to you, because the story goes that when you got the news about the Nobel Prize in 1969, in October, you prepared your speech in Swedish for the December…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1969 A Physicist’s Renewed Look at Biology – Twenty Years Later Physics and Biology At the very beginnings of science the striking dissimilarities between the behavior of living and nonliving things became obvious. Two tendencies can be discerned in the attempts to arrive at a unified view of our world. One…

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