Nobel Prize

Robert M. Solow’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Seven weeks have gone by since it became known that I had won this Prize. During that time I have been asked how to solve the economic problems of the United States, Norway, Sweden, the Federal…

James M. Buchanan Jr.’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1986 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This is, indeed, a unique experience for me, so much so that I feel very much like the blind man in the nudist camp. I am feeling my way around. More seriously, I have the…

Franco Modigliani’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 I would like to express my thanks to the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Riksbanken for their award. From the instant I lifted that phone at 7 a.m. on October 15 our life has been miraculously transformed and we have…

Richard Stone’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1984 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Since the 18th of October I have been the prey to many emotions. First of all came surprise at having been selected for this high honour. Then came elation as the truth of it sank in. Then…

Gerard Debreu’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Many Laureates before me must have been filled with wonder at the dazzling recognition they received in Stockholm for something that they enjoyed so much doing. The instant at which a scientist becomes certain that his problem…

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…

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…

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…