Nobel Prize

Sir Charles Sherrington’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1932 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I rise in response to the kind toast given by Professor Gunnar Holmgren, and I esteem it a privilege to tender my thanks to him, in this company and in this City renowned for…

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Nobel Lecture, December 14, 1932 Surface Chemistry Pdf 210 kB

Irving Langmuir’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1932 To my mind this impressive ceremony which so well typifies the spirit of the Swedish people, is significant as a realization of the magnificent idealism of Alfred Nobel. He desired above all things to benefit mankind. He recognized the importance of science and…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1933 The Development of Quantum Mechanics Pdf 46 kB

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Tortue claire Turbot à l´amiral Caneton à la royal Soufflé glacé aux violettes Petits fours Fruits VINS Golden Sherry Schloss Böckelheimer, 1928 Ch. Beychevelle, 1924 Louis Roederer, Grand Vin Sec

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Edgar Douglas Adrian was born on November 30, 1889, in London. He was the second son of Alfred Douglas Adrian, C.B., K.C., legal adviser to the British Local Government Board. Adrian went to school at Westminster School, London, and in 1908 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, at which College he had won a Scholarship…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1932 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Within the domain of physiology and medicine probably few spheres will be calculated to attract to themselves attention to the same extent as the nervous system, that distributor…