Nobel Prize

French Deux mondes Il s’agit pour moi d’une situation inhabituelle. S’il m’arrive de donner des lectures, je ne fais ni causeries ni discours. Je réponds toujours cela aux gens qui me demandent une conférence. Et c’est la pure vérité. Il peut paraître étrange qu’un homme qui depuis près de cinquante ans fait profession de manier…

Swedish Två världar Det här känns ovanligt för mig. Jag har ofta framträtt med uppläsningar men inte hållit föreläsning. Om jag blivit ombedd att göra det har jag svarat att jag inte har något att säga. Och det är sant. Det kan verka underligt att en man som i nästan femtio år ägnat sig åt…

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A selection of works by V.S. Naipaul The Mystic Masseur. – London: Deutsch, 1957. Miguel Street. – London: Deutsch, 1959. A House for Mr. Biswas. – London: Deutsch, 1961. The Middle Passage : Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America. – London: Deutsch, 1962. Mr. Stone…

English 9 October 2001 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA, Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and Carl E. Wieman JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, “for…

I was born on October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, a small town in Germany with a charming old city and a famous castle. My parents had come to Heidelberg after the second world war, when many people relocated within Germany searching for better economic opportunities. My mother’s parents were farmers in Silesia, which has now…

Interview transcript On behalf of the Nobel e-Museum, I have the pleasure of welcoming this year’s winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners are Professor George Akerlof from the University of California Berkeley; Michael Spence, Stanford University; and Professor Joseph Stiglitz from…

Interview transcript On behalf of the Nobel e-Museum, I have the pleasure of welcoming this year’s winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners are Professor George Akerlof from the University of California Berkeley; Michael Spence, Stanford University; and Professor Joseph Stiglitz from…

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