Nobel Prize

Carl E. Wieman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2001 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Laureates of the past century, Ladies and Gentlemen, On the behalf of my colleagues Eric Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle I would like to say how honored and delighted we are to receive the Nobel Prize in physics for…

There are several equations left over from my talk on light last Thursday – and I thought this splendid dinner might be an ideal occasion to present them. But I’d like to say a few words first. These dark days in Stockholm emphasize the importance of light in our lives. It is…

Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Dear Friends and Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me, at the close of this wonderful banquet, evoke the memory of . His work has had an impact on all the fields of science and culture celebrated tonight. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for…

Christian de Duve’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Students, I hope I may still be allowed to use the term fellow students. For we know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society. On…

George E. Palade’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the large domain of life sciences, Cell Biology is a field reborn. The last period in which it flourished was at the end of the last century, when light microscopes were brought up to the…

Sir Frederick Hopkins’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nobel Laureates are greatly privileged. Their privileges, I venture to say, begin with the invitation to Stockholm, and with the circumstances which meet them there. Stockholm takes care that a fitting stage is provided…

  George J. Stigler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Even upon so joyous an occasion as this, an economist is entitled to feel sorry for himself. Unlike the members of the physical and biological sciences, the economist is asked to explain his work in…

James Tobin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for my honor, and for your friendship and hospitality to me and my family. This day, this week, will live in our memory. I am gratified that scholars I greatly respect read my work…

Lawrence R. Klein’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The apparent wish of Alfred Nobel that the prize sums awarded under the terms of his will should enable the winners to pursue creative work without concern for personal economic affairs has been set back by…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1973, the speech was read by M. Sidney Nolan Your Majesty, and Gentlemen of the Swedish Academy, It is with great regret that I cannot revisit Stockholm on such an occasion as today. But to…