1920
Nobel Banquet Menu 1920
Consommé bouquetière Saumon froid niçoise Selle de pré-salé renaissance Asberges en branches Parfait à l´abricots Petits fours glacés Friandises VINS Ch. Pontet Canet Forster Traminer, 1893 Sparkling Hock Fine Bual (Menu from December 10, 1920 is missing. This menu is from “Nobelstiftelsens högtidsdag” June 1, 1920, Hasselbacken)
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Léon Bourgeois – Biographical
Biographical
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (May 21, 1851-September 29, 1925), the «spiritual father» of the League of Nations, was a man of prodigious capabilities and diversified interests. A statesman, jurist, artist, and scholar, Léon Bourgeois, in the course of a long career, held almost every major office available in the French government of the Third Republic.…
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Banquet speech
Remarks at the Award Ceremony by Anders Johnsen Buen, President of the Norwegian Parliament, on December 10, 1920 The letter from the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament reads as follows: “The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has the honor of announcing herewith its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919 to…
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh – A versatile genius
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh – A versatile genius by Jan Lindsten 2 April 2001 “The physiologist’s physiologist” In 1997, at the Sixteenth Nordic Congress of Medical History in Stockholm, Dr. Ole Munck – consultant at the Museum of Medical History in Copenhagen, concluded his presentation about with the following comment: “We are facing a versatile…
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