Nobel Prize

https://youtu.be/YXV85kILiu8 Olga Tokarczuk’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, my fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Allow me to offer my most heartfelt thanks to the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation for this incredible honor. Before making the trip to Stockholm, I did my best to find out…

https://youtu.be/UqJgJuf8KFI Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of Professors Gregg Semenza, William Kaelin and myself, I wish to thank the Nobel Committee, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation for this great…

https://youtu.be/xVCAbfMbaho M. Stanley Whittingham’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of Professor John Goodenough, Dr. Akira Yoshino and myself we wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this honor. More than a century…

https://youtu.be/UEpRjp5WpHQ James Peebles’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Excellencies Dear Laureates and guests Ladies and gentlemen I rise on behalf of Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz, and myself to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for their recognition of our pure curiosity-driven research…

https://youtu.be/svtY_XKKMXM William D. Nordhaus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Ers Majestäter, Ers Kungliga Högheter, Excellenser, Kära pristagare, Mina damer och herrar, Våra barn, Våra barnbarn. The 2018 citation for economic sciences highlights “the causes and consequences of technological innovation and climate change.” The science of climate change was founded in 1896, the…

https://youtu.be/5k_sISTkG4E Tasuku Honjo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of Professor Jim Allison and myself, I wish to express our heartful appreciation to the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation. Cancer has been the No. 1…

https://youtu.be/EnLdBiu7ci8 Frances H. Arnold’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. Let me start with a question: “Why did Newton’s apple fall to the ground?” First the answer from the physicist: “There is a force called gravity that exists between any two objects,…

https://youtu.be/vzHE4TDYjsI Donna Strickland’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my honour to represent the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 and speak on behalf of Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou, my esteemed colleagues with whom I share the prize. Arthur Ashkin…

Otto Hahn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 (in German) Der Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und dem Nobelkomite möchte ich meinen tiefgefühlten Dank aussprechen für die grosse Ehre, die sie mir mit der Erteilung des Nobelpreises erwiesen haben, und auch Ihnen, sehr verehrter Herr Präsident Curman, möchte ich herzlich danken für…

Marie Curie’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1911 (in French) Je remercie l’Académie des Sciences du très grand honneur qu’elle m’a fait. Je crois que cet honneur ne s’adresse point uniquement à moi. Pendant de longues années, et moi avons consacré toutes nos journées aux travaux concernant nos découvertes communes du…