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Norwegian har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2008 skal tildelast Martti Ahtisaari for den store innsatsen han har lagt ned på fleire kontinent og gjennom meir enn tre tiår for å løyse internasjonale konfliktar. Denne innsatsen har verka til ei fredelegare verd og til “brorskap mellom nasjonane” i Alfred Nobels ånd. Ahtisaari har heile sitt…

English has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts. These efforts have contributed to a more peaceful world and to “fraternity between nations” in Alfred Nobel’s spirit. Throughout all his adult life, whether…

  Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 to Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discoveries of two viruses causing severe human diseases. One half is awarded to Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”…

Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien, “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, gfp”. Lessons from the jellyfish’s green light Off the west coast of North America, floats the jellyfish…

English Speech by Dr Marcus Storch, Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2008. Dr Marcus Storch delivering the opening address during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, I would…

Swedish Tal av Dr Marcus Storch, Nobelstiftelsens styrelseordförande, den 10 december 2008. Dr Marcus Storch håller sitt hälningsanförande under Nobelprisceremonin i Konserthuset i Stockholm. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, På Nobelstiftelsens vägnar ber jag att få hälsa er välkomna till årets prisutdelning, och jag vill särskilt hälsa…

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Martti Ahtisaari was born on June 23, 1937 in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. Finland lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked the country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, Ahtisaari became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. With his mother, he moved from one household to another before…