Nobel Prize

The 14th Dalai Lama’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1989. Your Majesty, Members of the Nobel Committee, Brothers and Sisters: I am very happy to be here with you today to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. I feel honoured,…

David Gross answers questions on the NobelPrize YouTube channel The third in a series of Q&A sessions with Nobel Laureates on YouTube features David Gross, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 for discovering the workings of one of the four basic forces in nature, the strong force that holds atomic nuclei together.…

Harry Kroto Answers Questions on the NobelPrize YouTube Channel The fourth in a series of Q&A sessions with Nobel Laureates on YouTube features Harry Kroto, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for discovering that carbon atoms can assemble into soccer-ball-shaped structures of molecules, known as fullerenes or buckyballs. In the videos below…

Quasi-Periodic Materials – A Paradigm Shift in Crystallography Presentation Nobel Lecture Pdf 5.8 MB

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Nobel Laureates, fellow scientists, ladies and gentlemen, dear family. On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi–periodic crystals. However, today I am joined by many hundreds of enthusiastic scientists worldwide. I…

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English Nobel Lecture by Martti Ahtisaari, Oslo, 10 December 2008. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Dear Friends and Colleagues around the world, I feel both humility and gratitude at receiving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It is the greatest recognition anybody working in this…

Interview transcript Gunter Blobel, we would like to join all those who have congratulated to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine which you received two days ago here in Stockholm. We also know that you have had a very hectic week indeed, and we are therefore very grateful that you…

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