Nobel Prize

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…

Leland H. Hartwell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2001 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, The goal of science, as we all know, is to discover simplicity in the midst of complexity. Yet when Paul Nurse, Tim Hunt and I and our students and colleagues began studying how cells…

Theodore W. Schultz’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Royal Academy of Sciences expressed a deep concern about the economic problems and the welfare of poor people throughout the world in awarding the Nobel Prize in Economics this year. It is a noble concern…

Sir Arthur Lewis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The privilege of accepting the greetings of the students has been accorded to me, and I seize it gladly. On behalf of this year’s laureates I say – Welcome fellow students, the path is hard, and…

Herbert A. Simon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I express my deep gratitude for the honor bestowed on me, and through me, on the colleagues with whom I have collaborated in studying economic behavior and the human mind. Ten years ago, economics was…

James E. Meade’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What an exciting subject is economics and what an impossible combination of qualities does it not demand for its practice: Scientific observation of the facts of commercial life; commonsensical inference, from personal introspection, daily experience and…