Physiology or Medicine
George Wald – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
George Wald’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Exellencies, Ladies, Gentlemen, and fellow students: A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn’t serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of…
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Ragnar Granit – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Ragnar Granit’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (in Swedish) Eders Majestät, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Festförsamling: Ingen kan ta emot ett nobelpris utan känslor av djup tacksamhet och glädje. Mitt tack riktar sig inte enbart till prisutdelarna – intill helt nyligen mitt eget lärarkollegium – utan också till personer och…
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Nobel Prize lecture
Ilya Mechnikov – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1908 On the Present State of the Question of Immunity in Infectious Diseases I am here before you by virtue of paragraph 9 of the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which states that “it shall be incumbent on a prize-winner, whenever this is possible, to give a public lecture on a…
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