Nobel Prize

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R Schrock “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”     Contents: |  |  |  |  |  | |  |  |…

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I was born at home in rural Kentucky in 1942, in a house that my father, Howard, had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye. In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in…

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English The Permanent Secretary Press release 13 October 2005 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 Harold Pinter The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2005 is awarded to the English writer Harold Pinter “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”. The Swedish Academy

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English Presentation Speech by Writer Per Wästberg, Member of the , Chairman of its Nobel Committee, December 10, 2005. Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Harold Pinter is the renewer…

English Biobibliographical Notes Harold Pinter was born on 10 October 1930 in the London borough of Hackney, son of a Jewish dressmaker. Growing up, Pinter was met with the expressions of anti-Semitism, and has indicated its importance for his becoming a dramatist. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated from London…

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