Articles by: Ulrika Royen

English Speech by Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2014. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel…

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Swedish Tal av professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Nobelstiftelsens styrelseordförande, den 10 december 2014. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar, På Nobelstiftelsens vägnar är det med stort nöje som jag ber att få hälsa er alla…

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Introduction Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) – scientist, author and pacifist, but above all the inventor of dynamite and holder of 355 patents – shaped as a human being in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Russian capital where different nationalities and cultures mixed and where science and literature developed in a dynamic interaction between Western European tradition…

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