Nobel Prize

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…

Otto Loewi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1936 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, Excellenzen, meine Damen und Herren! Grosse Menschen stehen nicht nur im Leben, sondern auch über dem Leben, übersehen von da die Zusammenhänge und erkennen, was der Menschheit eignet und was ihr noctut. Ein solcher Mensch war Alfred Nobel und…

Sir Henry Dale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1936 The whole world admires the fidelity and the wide international vision with which his countrymen have fulfilled the great Trust committed to them by Alfred Nobel, a loyal son of this country and a citizen of the whole world. Among those in…

Paul A.M. Dirac’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1933 I should like to thank you all very much for the great honour you have done to me, and the kindness you have shown me, which I hardly feel I deserve. I think that in replying on an occasion like this one…

Erwin Schrödinger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1933 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten! Meine Damen und Herren! Es gibt Dinge im Leben, die man nicht durch Erfahrung lernen kann, sondern gleich das erste Mal richtig treffen muss. Und trifft man es nicht, so hat man keine Gelegenheit, den Fehler beim zweiten Mal…

James Franck’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1926 (in German) Eure königliche Hoheiten! Meine hochverehrten Damen und Herren! Ich bitte um die Erlaubnis, gleichzeitig im Namen meines Freundes Hertz für die so sehr freundlichen Worte danken zu dürfen, die Herr Oseen und Herr Cassel uns gewidmet haben. Gern möchte ich die…