1994

Prose

Excerpt from Prize Stock When I woke up, fecund morning light was slanting through every crack in the slat walls, and it was already hot. My father was gone. So was his gun from the wall. I shook my brother awake and went out to the cobblestone road without a shirt. The road and the…

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Interview

Interview  transcript Alfred G. Gilman, co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Martin Rodbell, welcome to this archival interview for Nobelprize.org. Alfred G. Gilman: Thank you and thanks for coming and visiting us here in Dallas. I’m happy to be here. Your part in the work was…

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Banquet speech

Martin Rodbell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life, like the first blooming, emerges tantalizing to the curious: Why, How, When, Where; Interlocked questions arising from the mysterious encompassing matters quite serious. What, for example, is signal transduction? Haven’t you heard, the computer chips proclaim, Surely…

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Banquet speech

John C. Harsanyi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to say a few words on behalf of John Nash, Reinhard Selten and myself. Of course, we all feel greatly honored by the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to award the…

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