Nobel Prize

Edmond H. Fischer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my colleague and closest friend of forty years, Edwin Krebs and myself, I would like to express our gratitude for the immense honor bestowed upon us today. I thought I would reflect here…

Erwin Neher’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1991 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a day of honour and distinction for Bert Sakmann and myself. We consider ourselves privileged, fortunate and endowed with luck. We had the privilege of good teachers. We were fortunate to concentrate our efforts on…

Joseph E. Murray delivering his banquet speech at the Nobel Prize banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1990. Joseph E. Murray’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Dr. Thomas and myself I thank you for this honor. Your recognition of…

Joseph L. Goldstein’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Michael Brown and I are grateful to the Swedish academic community for bestowing this honor on us. Some may think that we are too young for this award. But let me point out that we work…

Michael S. Brown’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Joe and I were trained as physicians and we still perform clinical duties. Yet, we realized that the understanding of a complex problem such as atherosclerosis requires the tools of basic science. We are fortunate to…

Sune K. Bergström’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, According to Alfred Nobel’s will the prize that the three of us have shared is for “the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine” a discovery that “shall have conferred the greatest benefit…

Bengt I. Samuelsson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Students, On behalf of this year’s laureates, I have the great pleasure to express our thanks for your kind words and for your beautiful songs. Alfred Nobel regarded science and art as the benefactors of…

Torsten N. Wiesel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege and pleasure to speak on behalf of the three laureates in Physiology or Medicine, Roger Sperry, David Hubel, and myself. We wish to express our deep gratitude to all concerned for the…

Jean Dausset’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Au nom des 3 Lauréats du Prix de Physiologie et de Médecine 1980, George Snell, Baruj Benacerraf et moi-même, je veux exprimer à la Fondation Nobel toute notre reconnaissance. En nos personnes vous avez récompensé tout un domaine,…

Allan M. Cormack’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Godfrey Hounsfield has asked me to speak for both of us. We would most respectfully request Your Majesty to convey to the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet our intense gratitude for the…