Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, To be a jester is, and always has been, a serious matter. Swedish mediaeval laws stipulated that it cost a man smaller fines to lay violent hands on somebody from…

English Biobibliographical Notes Dario Fo, one of the leading figures in modern farce and political drama, was born in 1926 in the village of Sangiano (Varese) in Lombardy, where while still young he came into contact with popular theatrical and narrative traditions (his grandfather was a well-known fabulatore). After studying art and architecture in Milan,…

Italian Nota bio-bibliografica Dario Fo, una delle figure di primo piano della farsa e del teatro politico moderni, è nato in un paese della Lombardia, Sangiano (Varese), dove è venuto presto a contatto con il teatro popolare e la tradizione orale (il nonno era un conosciuto fabulatore). Dopo aver studiato arte e architettura a Milano,…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nagel of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics jointly to three physicists for “development of methods to cool and trap atoms with…

I was born on 5 November 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, just across the river from the town of Kingston, where my parents lived with my one and a half year old sister, Maxine. My parents had come to this small Pennsylvania town from places and backgrounds that were far apart and yet quite similar. My…

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Swedish 15 oktober 1997 har beslutat att utdela 1997 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, Kalifornien, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France och École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Frankrike, och Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, för utveckling av metoder att kyla…