Nobel Prize

Ragnar Granit’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (in Swedish) Eders Majestät, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Festförsamling: Ingen kan ta emot ett nobelpris utan känslor av djup tacksamhet och glädje. Mitt tack riktar sig inte enbart till prisutdelarna – intill helt nyligen mitt eget lärarkollegium – utan också till personer och…

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Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

  Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Immeasurably Fast Reactions Pdf 1.26 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Some Fast Reactions in Gases Studied by Flash Photolysis and Kinetic Spectroscopy Pdf 1.01 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Flash Photolysis and Some of Its Applications Pdf 579 kB

Manfred Eigen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (in German) Eure Majestät, Eure Königliche Hoheiten, meine Damen und Herren: In der Laudatio, die uns soeben bei der Verleihung des Chemie-Nobelpreises verlesen wurde, heißt es von „sehr schnellen Reaktionen”, „Störungen von (chemischen) Gleichgewichten”, „Blitzlichtphotolyse” und „(chemischer) Relaxation”. Nun, es war schon eine…

Ronald G.W. Norrish’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As one who was brought up in the old tradition of chemical teaching when such names as Scheele, Priestly, Lavoisier, Berzelius and Liebig stood out as beacon lights along the road of…

George Porter’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentemen: It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow. When the honour is given to that…

Interview transcript We are now in Lindau and we are here at the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Laureates meetings with students and we are lucky to have come to Professor Manfred Eigen and he got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 and we just welcome you here. Manfred Eigen:…