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Presentation Speech by Professor Gunnar von Heijne of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Gunnar von Heijne delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the days of Alfred Nobel, the…

The Laureates Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , The Rockefeller University Animations Original papers “Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein”. Preston, G.M., Carroll, T.P., Guggino, W.B., and Agre, P. (1992). Science 256, 385-387. “Reconstitution of functional water channels in liposomes containing purified red cell CHIP28 protein”.…

Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Writer Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, To write is to awaken counter-voices within…

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English Bioibliographical notes John Maxwell Coetzee was born in 1940 in Cape Town in South Africa. His background is both German and English. His parents sent him to an English school and he grew up using English as his first language. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to England where he worked initially…

John Maxwell Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 9 February 1940, the elder of two children. His mother was a primary school teacher. His father was trained as an attorney, but practiced as such only intermittently; during the years 1941–45 he served with the South African forces in North Africa and Italy.…

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Swedish Biobliografisk notis John Maxwell Coetzee är född 1940 i Kapstaden, Sydafrika. Han har både tysk och engelsk bakgrund. Föräldrarna skickade honom till en engelsk skola och han växte upp med engelska som förstaspråk. I början av 1960-talet flyttade han till England och där arbetade han i början som dataprogrammerare. Han bedrev sedan studier i…

French Notice biobibliographique John Maxwell Coetzee est né en 1940 au Cap en Afrique du Sud. Il est d’ascendance à la fois allemande et anglaise. Ses parents l’envoyèrent dans une école anglaise et il grandit avec l’anglais comme première langue. Il élut domicile en Angleterre au début des années 60 où il travailla d’abord comme…