Nobel Prize

Geoffrey Hinton’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2024. Your MajestiesYour Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Nobel committees in Physics and Chemistry have recognized the dramatic progress being made in a new form of Artificial Intelligence that uses artificial neural networks to learn how to solve difficult computational problems. This…

Claudia Goldin’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Distinguished Guests: When the phone rang at 4:30 am and I was told I had 90 minutes to prepare for a press conference, I flung into action. “Larry: Take Pika out.”…

Jon Fosse’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your MajestiesYour Royal HighnessesExcellencesEsteemed LaureatesLadies and gentlemen Many years ago, I saw myself – not in a dream, or in a daydream, more like in a vision – walking along the side of a road leading to the centre of a town. When I…

Katalin Karikó’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences,Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Prof Drew Weissman and myself, we wish to thank the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Foundation for awarding us the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.…

Moungi Bawendi’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear Laureates,Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of Prof. Louis Brus, Dr. Aleksey Yekimov, and myself, we would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for the magnificent honor that this prize confers. We are indebted…

Anne L’Huillier’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2023. Your Majesties,Your Royal Highnesses,Excellences,Dear laureates,Ladies and gentlemen Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and I thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for awarding us the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. 122 years ago, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics,…

German Nelly Sachs’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Eure Majestät, Eure Königliche Hoheiten, meine verehrten Zuhörer: Im Sommer 1939 reiste meine deutsche Freundin nach Schweden, um aufzusuchen und um ihre Hilfe zu bitten, eine Freistatt für meine Mutter und mich in Schweden zu erwirken. Ich hatte…

Spanish Pablo Neruda’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1971 Altezas, Señoras y Señores, Venimos de muy lejos, de fuera o de dentro de nosotros mismos, de idiomas contrapuestos, de países que se aman. Aquí nos encontramos, en Estocolmo, en esta noche central del mundo. Hemos llegado de…

Ben Bernanke’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2022. Your Majesties. Your Royal Highnesses. Excellences. Dear laureates. Ladies and gentlemen: On behalf of Professor Douglas Diamond, Professor Philip Dybvig, and myself, we wish to thank the Sveriges Riksbank, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Nobel Foundation. My colleagues and I would…

Annie Ernaux’s speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2022. Vos Majestés Vos Altesses Royales Excellences Chers Lauréats Mesdames et Messieurs J’avais 17 ans, en 1957, quand j’ai appris à la radio qu’ avait reçu le prix Nobel de littérature à Stockholm. Je découvrais avec un mélange de fierté et de bonheur que l’auteur…