Daron Acemoglu’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellencies,Dear laureates, Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Professor Johnson, Professor Robinson, and myself, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for recognizing our work on the origins of economic and political institutions and the…

Han Kang’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your majesties, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. I remember the day when I was eight years old. As I was leaving my afternoon abacus lesson, the skies opened in a sudden downpour. This rain was so fierce that two dozen children wound up…

Gary Ruvkun’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Your Excellencies,fellow Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, Victor Ambros and I gratefully celebrate the Nobel Foundation for its century of magnificent awards. Our discovery of a surprising world of tiny RNAs only 22 nucleotides long – dramatically smaller than any RNAs known at…

David Baker’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and myself, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Many today are worried about what the next few years…

Geoffrey Hinton’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your MajestiesYour Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Nobel committees in Physics and Chemistry have recognized the dramatic progress being made in a new form of Artificial Intelligence that uses artificial neural networks to learn how to solve difficult computational problems. This…

The Nobel Prize Banquet Menu 2024 is composed by chef Jessie Sommarström and pastry chef Frida Bäcke. In this article the chefs tell the story behind each course. Starter Nobel Prize Banquet menu 2024: The starter. Chef Jessie Sommarström in the making of this year’s banquet starter. “The ingredients are carefully picked out, with the…

Opening address by Professor Astrid Söderbergh Widding, chair of the board of the Nobel Foundation. Speech by Professor Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Prize Laureates, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, it is my great…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Johan Åqvist, ledamot av Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 december 2024. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Pristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, Proteiner är de makromolekyler som möjliggör livets kemi. De katalyserar alla de nödvändiga kemiska reaktionerna. De fungerar också som signalmolekyler, receptorer, pumpar, antikroppar och byggstenar för olika…

English Presentation speech by Author Ellen Mattson, Member of the Swedish Academy, Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2024. Your Majesties, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Two colours meet in Han Kang’s writing: white and red. The white is the snow that falls in so many of her books, drawing a…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Rickard Sandberg, ledamot av Nobelförsamlingen vid Karolinska Institutet, ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysiologi eller medicin, 10 december 2024. Ers majestäter, Ers kungliga högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar, För ett ögonblick ber jag er att se er omkring i denna majestätiska sal. Föreställ er att vi inte befinner oss i en…