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English Excerpt from The Storyteller (El Hablador) I FIRST became acquainted with the Amazon jungle halfway through 1958, thanks to my friend Rosita Corpancho. Her function at the University of San Marcos was vague; her power unlimited. She prowled among the professors without being one of them, and they all did whatever…

Lecture presentation Nobel Lecture NB. As Dr Sperry was disabled to give the lecture himself, it was read by Professor David Ottoson. Dr Sperry sat in the front row listening to the lecture and accepted the applause at the end.   Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1981 Some Effects of Disconnecting…

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German Excerpts from Roman eines Schicksallosen (Fatelessness) (Seite 153 und 271-274) Die Hauptsache ist, sich nicht gehenzulassen: irgendwie wird es schon werden, denn es ist noch nie vorgekommen, daß es nicht irgendwie doch geworden wäre – wie mir Bandi Citrom beibrachte, der diese Weisheit seinerseits im Arbeitsdienst gelernt hatte. Das allerwichtigste ist unter…

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English Heureka! I must begin with a confession, a strange confession perhaps, but a candid one. From the moment I stepped on the airplane to make the journey here and accept this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, I have been feeling the steady, searching gaze of a dispassionate observer on my back.…

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Interview, June 2020 Aaron Ciechanover © Nobel Media Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2004, is passionate about the power of science to benefit humankind. In this interview with Adam Smith, chief scientific officer at Nobel Prize Outreach, he shares his views on how science can be used wisely in politics and society, and the…

Transcript from an interview with Aaron Ciechanover, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Aaron Ciechanover, co-recipient with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose of the 2004 Nobel Prize…

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