Nobel Prize

Otto Loewi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1936 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, Excellenzen, meine Damen und Herren! Grosse Menschen stehen nicht nur im Leben, sondern auch über dem Leben, übersehen von da die Zusammenhänge und erkennen, was der Menschheit eignet und was ihr noctut. Ein solcher Mensch war Alfred Nobel und…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 Some Recent Extensions of the Chemical Transmission of the Effects of Nerve Impulses The transmission of the effects of nerve impulses, by the release of chemical agents, first became an experimental reality in 1921. In that year Otto Loewi published the first of the series , , , , ,…

Sir Henry Dale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1936 The whole world admires the fidelity and the wide international vision with which his countrymen have fulfilled the great Trust committed to them by Alfred Nobel, a loyal son of this country and a citizen of the whole world. Among those in…

Carlos Saavedra Lamas did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Radio Address by Carlos Saavedra Lamas, delivered on November 29, 1931, after the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on November 25, 1931. Carlos Saavedra Lamas was unable to attend the held in Oslo on December 10, 1936, for he was presiding at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace which was…

Books in English (American editions only) Thirst and Other One Act Plays. – Boston : Gorham Press, 1914. – Content: Thirst, The Web, Warnongs, Fog, Recklessness Bound East for Cardiff // Provincetown Plays : First Series. – New York : Frank Shay, 1916 Before Breakfast // Provincetown Plays : Third Series. – New York :…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1936, the speech was read by James E. Brown, Jr., American Chargé d’Affaires It is an extraordinary privilege that has come to me to take before this gathering of eminent persons the place of my…

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