1922
Fridtjof Nansen – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture, December 19, 1922 (Translation) The Suffering People of Europe In the Capitoline Museum in Rome is a sculpture in marble which, in its simple pathos, seems to me to be a most beautiful creation. It is the statue of the “Dying Gaul”. He is lying on the battlefield, mortally wounded. The vigorous…
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Francis W. Aston – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Otto Meyerhof – Biographical
Biographical
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was born on April 12, 1884, in Hannover. He was the son of Felix Meyerhof, a merchant of that city and his wife Bettina May. Soon after his birth his family moved to Berlin, where he went to the Wilhelms Gymnasium (classical secondary school). Leaving school at the age of 14, he…
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