1945

Banquet speech

Sir Howard Florey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should wish in the first place to thank most sincerely the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Physiology and Medicine for the very great honour you have conferred on me today. My colleagues…

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Banquet speech

Ernst B. Chain’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to express to you my deep gratitude for the very great honour conferred on me by the award of a Nobel prize which has come to be regarded universally as the…

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Questions and Answers

Question: When was Sir Alexander Fleming born?Answer: Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield Farm near Darvel, Scotland. Question: When did he die?Answer: Fleming died of a heart attack on 11 March 1955 in London, United Kingdom. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at St Paul’s Cathedral. Question: Who were his…

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Banquet speech

Gabriela Mistral’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 (Translation) Today Sweden turns toward a distant Latin American country to honour it in the person of one of the many exponents of its culture. It would have pleased the cosmopolitan spirit of Alfred Nobel to extend the scope…

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