Physics

Banquet speech

Rudolf Mössbauer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 (in German) Eure Majestäten, Königliche Hoheiten, Hochansehnliche Festversammlung. Im vergangenen Herbst hatte ich zum ersten Mal Gelegenheit Ihr gastfreundliches Land und einige seiner schönen wissenschaftlichen Institutionen kennenzulernen. Damals konnte ich nicht ahnen, dass es mir vergönnt sein würde so kurze Zeit später und…

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Banquet speech

Chen Ning Yang’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all allow me to thank the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy of Sciences for the kind hospitality that Mrs. Yang and I have so much enjoyed. I also wish to thank…

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Banquet speech

Tsung-Dao Lee’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Juai Tien Kuo Kuo Wang, Wang Hu, Ke Wai Wang Tze, Ke Wai Rung Chu, Ke Wai Kao Pin: [Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentemen:] To be awarded the Nobel Prize is perhaps the greatest honor that can be bestowed on any…

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Interview

Interview transcript Tsung-Dao Lee, co-recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Chen Ning Yang, welcome to Stockholm. You are back here in 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that award. Looking back at your being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, do you think the public perception of…

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Interview

Interview transcript Professor Veltman, you have long experience of research, teaching and students in the United States, and in Europe, what would you say are the main differences between the United States and Europe in this respect? Martinus Veltman: The main difference, at least in Holland, I think on the average I…

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