1994
Press release
Press release
12 October 1994 has decided to award the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter with one half to Professor Bertram N. Brockhouse, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, for the development of neutron spectroscopy and one half to Professor Clifford G. Shull,…
moreKenzaburo Oe – Prose
Prose
Excerpt from Prize Stock When I woke up, fecund morning light was slanting through every crack in the slat walls, and it was already hot. My father was gone. So was his gun from the wall. I shook my brother awake and went out to the cobblestone road without a shirt. The road and the…
moreKenzaburo Oe – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Kenzaburo Oe’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1994 I am a strange Japanese who spent his infancy and boyhood under the overwhelming influence of Nils Holgersson. So great was Nils’ influence on me that there was a time I could name Sweden’s beautiful locales better than those of my own country. Nils’ ponderous…
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