Nobel Prize

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…

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…

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…

Daniel Nathans’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I speak on behalf of the three Laureates in Medicine in expressing our deep appreciation to Your Majesty and to all those who have made of Alfred Nobel’s legacy a unique tribute to human achievement. Scientific knowledge…

Roger Guillemin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Speaking in the name of my colleagues, Rosalyn Yalow and Andrew Schally, may I express to you our gratitude for the honor you are doing all of us in ennobling this ceremony by your royal presence. A…

Rosalyn Yalow’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies, Gentlemen and you, the Students, who are the carriers of our hopes for the survival of the world and our dreams for its future. Tradition has ordained that one of the Laureates represent all of us in responding to…

Baruch S. Blumberg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: My colleague and friend, Carleton Gajdusek, and I wish to thank the Nobel Committee for their gracious and generous hospitality. We have a special debt for I believe the size of our respective parties has established…

D. Carleton Gajdusek’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Specifically, Fellow Students! – if I may be granted by you the privilege of calling myself and the other Prize Winners and Prize Givers students, like yourselves! Yet, I warn you that if you do…