1969
Murray Gell-Mann – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Murray Gell-Mann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the…
moreMurray Gell-Mann – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1969 Symmetry and Currents in Particle Physics [Professor Gell-Mann has presented his Nobel Lecture, but did not submit a manuscript for inclusion in this volume.]
moreMurray Gell-Mann – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript Welcome to this interview, Professor Murray Gell-Mann. Murray Gell-Mann: Well, thank you. Actually I don’t know, maybe I could speak Swedish to you, because the story goes that when you got the news about the Nobel Prize in 1969, in October, you prepared your speech in Swedish for the December…
moreMax Delbrück – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1969 A Physicist’s Renewed Look at Biology – Twenty Years Later Physics and Biology At the very beginnings of science the striking dissimilarities between the behavior of living and nonliving things became obvious. Two tendencies can be discerned in the attempts to arrive at a unified view of our world. One…
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