by Stig Ramel Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, 1972-1992 Every year since 1901, Alfred Nobel has been celebrated on the 10th of December, the date of his death. Simultaneously, the year’s Nobel Laureates are honored. Without giving expression to it, one feels here traces of western cultural roots in Greece and Jerusalem. Death and…

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm BY Stig Ramel From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901 BY Folke Henschen BY Philip S. Hench The Nobel Banquet in Stockholm Childhood Memories of Early Nobel Ceremonies and Laureates BY Stina Mörner-Paasche BY Tore Browaldh

by Tore Browaldh For twenty-two years, I attended the Nobel festivals in my capacity as deputy chairman of the Nobel Foundation. During those years, I experienced many incidents worth retelling. But my most unforgettable episode has no scientist or literary genius in its leading part, but an American movie actor and comedian.To me, the most…

by Folke Henschen On 10 December 1975 the 75th Nobel banquet was held. On that day, Folke Henschen told radio listeners his personal memories of the very first Nobel Prize awards, which he experienced as a student marshal. What follows here is a more detailed version. After long protracted negotiations, partly with the French government…

To Leo Tolstoy: With regard to the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time, we, the undersigned authors, artists, and critics, wish to express our admiration for you. In specific, we see in your person not only the most revered patriarch of today’s literature, but also for us the greatest and…

by Stina Mörner-Paasche21 February 2002 Along with Robert Tigerstedt, Karl Mörner was the Institute’s (Karolinska) delegate in the task of putting Nobel’s imprecisely worded into executable shape. Negotiations among the representatives of the Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, Karolinska Institutet and Nobel’s heirs were long and difficult. One spokesman for the heirs was Alfred…

  by 6 November 2001 When and I were asked to tell you of our recent trip to Stockholm, we wondered at first whether it would be entirely proper for us to discuss publicly an event in which we participated so personally. But on second thought, it seemed appropriate that we make to you our…