Nobel Prize

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1971 Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections 1. Definitions A country’s economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it…

Simon Kuznets’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1971 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics – as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems – it never crossed my mind that one day I…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1971 Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Structure Pdf 2.06 MB

Gerhard Herzberg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1971 Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say “thank you” for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics…

English Pablo Neruda’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1971 (Translation) Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We come from far away, from that which is behind us and within us, from different languages, from countries that love one another. Here we are assembled in Stockholm, which this…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

English Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1971 (Translation) Towards the Splendid City My speech is going to be a long journey, a trip that I have taken through regions that are distant and antipodean, but not for that reason any less similar to the landscape and the solitude in Scandinavia. I refer to the way in…

Spanish Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1971 Hacia la ciudad espléndida Mi discurso será una larga travesía, un viaje mío por regiones lejanas y antípodas, no por eso menos semejantes al paisaje y a las soledades del norte. Hablo del extremo sur de mi país. Tanto y tanto nos alejamos los chilenos hasta tocar con nuestros…

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