Oscar Arias Sánchez was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for designing a peace plan and promoting lasting peace in Central America. Oscar Arias Sánchez Full name: Oscar Arias SánchezBorn: 13 September 1940, Heredia, Costa RicaDate awarded: 13 October 1987 Peace in Central America Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias Sánchez received the Nobel Peace Prize for…

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I was born in Nagoya, Japan on September 5th, 1939, the second of three sons. I have also a younger sister. My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan. The company policy made it necessary for my father to…

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel interview, Professor Jean-Marie Lehn. You are one of a few French Nobel Prize winners I would say. How did the prize change your life or academic work? Jean-Marie Lehn: It didn’t change my work because when you are a scientist you have your own way of…

K. Alex Müller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen Despite the announcement in my mother language, you just heard, I choose to speak in English, with a heavy Swiss accent as a newspaper man had it. Georg Bednorz and I work at the IBM Laboratory…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1987 Perovskite-Type Oxides – The New Approach to High-Tc Superconductivity Pdf 463 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1987 Perovskite-Type Oxides – The New Approach to High-Tc Superconductivity Pdf 463 kB

For virtually every invading pathogen, be it a bacterium, virus or another microorganism, the body has a unique antibody specially designed to stop it in its tracks. Made and released by a special type of white blood cell, B lymphocytes, antibodies search for and bind to a distinctive molecule located on the assigned invader, sending…

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Robert M. Solow’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Seven weeks have gone by since it became known that I had won this Prize. During that time I have been asked how to solve the economic problems of the United States, Norway, Sweden, the Federal…