Nobel Prize

David M. Lee’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been a great pleasure to have participated in an exciting journey of discovery with my friends and colleagues, Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson. I speak on behalf of the three of us in expressing our…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been elected by my co-winners in Physics to propose to you a version of Mark Twain’s famous toast to babies, for babies are the first contact most of us have with real physics and thus an important component of the Nobel Prize…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. For more than 100 years the Nobel Foundation has handed out these generous prizes and hosted these magnificent banquets. All of this made possible due to the generosity and vision of Alfred Nobel. But can it continue? To continue having such splendid parties two…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honor for George Smoot and me to accept the Prize in Physics this year for our work on the very first light, the incredibly intense heat radiation that filled the universe when it was young, and…

Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour for Peter Grünberg and me to accept the Nobel Prize. We express our gratitude to the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. We want also to acknowledge the outstanding contributions to our work of many brilliant coworkers.…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is great honor for Toshihide Maskawa and me to accept the Nobel Prize in Physics, and we wish to express our sincerest gratitude to the Royal Academy of Science and the Nobel Foundation. It is a pity that Prof. Yoichiro Nambu was not…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honored Guests and Colleagues, Friends and Families, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honor and a pleasure for Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and me – together with our teams – to be here tonight.  We represent a community of scientists, with whom we tackled one of…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues and Friends A lot of praise has already been given to our work and the exciting new material graphene. We will certainly hear even more tribute as graphene’s impact on our lives becomes more obvious. So, let me refrain from further praise because…

John R. Vane’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things…

Marshall W. Nirenberg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1968 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deeply honored to be here tonight and would like to express my gratitude for the distinction you have conferred upon me. I am particularly happy to be here with Robert…