Nobel Prize

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1905 (Translation) Nations are represented by their poets and their writers in the open competition for the Nobel Prize. Consequently the award of the Prize by the glorifies not only the author but the people whose son he is, and it bears…

Norwegian Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1903 (in Norwegian) »Jeg tror, at den præmie, som er tildelt mig i dag, af den store almenhed vil opfattes som gave fra folk til folk. Og da vil jeg få lægge til, at efter den lange kamp jeg har været…

English Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1903 (Translation) I believe that the Prize I have received today will be regarded by the public as a gift from one nation to another. After the long struggle in which I have taken part to gain for Norway an equal…

Martin Rodbell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life, like the first blooming, emerges tantalizing to the curious: Why, How, When, Where; Interlocked questions arising from the mysterious encompassing matters quite serious. What, for example, is signal transduction? Haven’t you heard, the computer chips proclaim, Surely…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen My remarks in connection with the 2009 award to Professor Ostrom and myself of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel are in three parts. First, Professor Ostrom and I deeply appreciate the honor that the Nobel Committee has conferred…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am sure that my first thought, when I received the call telling me that I would receive the Prize in Economic Sciences, was the same as the first thought of many previous recipients – namely, to wonder which of my colleagues had…

.ברוך אתה יי אלוהינו מלך העולם הטוב והמיטיב Blessed are you, God, our Lord, Monarch of the Universe, who is good and does good. After partaking of a meal with fine wines, we recite this benediction when we are served with a superb wine. Your Royal Highnesses, we have, over the years,…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One of the great joys of research – whether it be in economics, physics, chemistry or any academic discipline – is the act of discovery, those moments when we are surprised by what we have found … when our original ideas are turned upside…

Clive W.J. Granger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2003 Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance. Rob deals with financial markets which produce…