Nobel Prize

Works Poems. – London: Macmillan, 1934 Lord of the Flies. – London: Faber, 1954 The Inheritors. – London: Faber, 1955 Pincher Martin. – London: Faber, 1956. – Republished as The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, 1957 Sometime, Never : Three Tales of Imagination / by William Golding, John Wyndham, and Mervyn Peake. – London: Eyre…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1983 Economic Theory in the Mathematical Mode Pdf 507 kB

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Gerard Debreu’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Many Laureates before me must have been filled with wonder at the dazzling recognition they received in Stockholm for something that they enjoyed so much doing. The instant at which a scientist becomes certain that his problem…

Born: July 4, 1921, Calais, France Civil Status: Married (to Françoise Bled, June 1945), two daughters, Chantal and Florence     Education 1941-44 École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 1956 D.Sc., Université de Paris, France     Academic appointments 1946 Agrégé de l’Université, Paris, France 1946-48 Research Associate of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,…

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Henry Taube’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honor to represent the science professed by Alfred Nobel, an honor enhanced by the presence here of so many of the Nobel family. My friend professor Lindqvist earlier today referred to chemistry as a…

Born: Neudorf, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1915; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1942.   Education B.S.: 1935, University of Saskatchewan M.S.: 1937, University of Saskatchewan (Research Supervisor, Prof. J.W.T. Spinks) Ph.D.: 1940, University of California, Berkeley (Research Supervisor, Prof. W.C. Bray) Professional Experience Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1940-41 Instructor and Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1941-46 Assistant Professor, Associate…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1983 Electron Transfer between Metal Complexes – Retrospective Pdf 812 kB