Nobel Prize

Georges Charpak’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The honour bestowed upon me by the Nobel Foundation appeared to me not to belong to the real world. I should have found, at my side, everyone from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. But an…

Frédéric Joliot’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1935 (in French) Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Qu’il me soit permis au nom de Madame Joliot-Curie et de moi-même d’exprimer toute notre admiration et notre reconnaissance à l’œuvre fondée par Alfred Nobel, de remercier les savants suédois du grand honneur qu’il nous ont fait…

Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen; on behalf of Shinya Yamanaka and myself, may I express our profound gratitude to the Karolinska Institutet and to the Nobel Foundation for this pre-eminent honour bestowed on us at this time. Shinya Yamanaka and I must be more different than any other previous…

Jules A. Hoffmann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2011. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Guests, On behalf of the awardees of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, I first wish to express our deeply felt appreciation of the exceptional honor which is bestowed on us today. We are delighted that the…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen Perhaps some of you know of a somewhat obscure poetic tradition that has been handed down through the many generations of life on the American frontier.  If not, please prepare yourself for a “top ten list” that has been composed for the occasion. Top…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Robin Warren and myself I would like to thank the Nobel Foundation for this great honour. I am here with my wife, Adrienne, who has shared my work and my life for the past 33 years. I…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen. Émile Zola asked in an address to students, “Did science promise happiness? No, I don’t think so,” he replied. “It promised truth and the question is whether truth will ever make us happy.” Last month, science afforded me enormous happiness.…

Eric R. Kandel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2000 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Members of the Nobel Assembly, Ladies and Gentlemen, Engraved above the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was the maxim “Know thyself.” Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed an honor for me to address you on behalf of Professor Ferid Murad, Professor Louis Ignarro and myself, co-winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. It is of special interest that the prize this year is being awarded to…

Stanley B. Prusiner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1997 King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Distinguished Guests, Tonight’s awarding of the Nobel Prizes and this elegant Banquet are a grand celebration of science and culture. These events honor the vision, courage, and wisdom of Alfred Nobel, a superb scientist in his own right. And…