Nobel Prize

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I draw pleasure, along with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, in joining the roster of chemists, recognized for over a century for their ingenuity and creativity by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. What an honor it is for us to be chosen…

Ers Majestäter, Ers Kungliga Högheter, Ers Excellenser, Mina Damer och Herrar. Jag börjar på svenska för att bevisa att jag fortfarande kan lära mig något nytt 45 år efter arbetet som förde mig hit. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentleman. I start in Swedish to prove that I…

To stand before this assembly as a Nobel Laureate in the midst of these gala and festive surroundings, is simultaneously daunting, exhilarating, empowering, and most of all humbling. It is a remarkable moment, one to be savored. It is also a moment in which to feel a profound sense of gratitude. And…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen I come humbly before you speaking for myself along with Co-Laureates – Dr. Richard Heck and Dr. Akira Suzuki. We are deeply honored to be recognized with this wonderful distinction. Receiving a Nobel Prize is the ultimate recognition for a lifetime spent questioning, exploring,…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. I was asked to represent the 2009 Chemistry laureates, who are three different people. We belong to different nationalities, genders, views and upbringings. However, we…

Your majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and I would like to thank those responsible for this great honor and to make some observations about what the Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) teaches us. We are deeply grateful that the Nobel committee and the Royal Academy of…

The famous physicist begins his autobiography with the sentence: “Science is made by men.” Since in my own case you honour not a singular discovery, but the lifelong attempt to understand how chemical reactions at solid surfaces take place, this work involved in fact many people. When I was young, I was…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen I am deeply grateful for the honor bestowed on me by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is an honor I share with many collaborators. My wife Yahli has been my closest collaborator. She has borne a double burden. She is the wife…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honor for Yves Chauvin, Richard Schrock and me to have been selected to receive this year’s Prize in Chemistry “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.” I am very pleased to be part of this unequalled celebration…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honored Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the three of us, Irwin Rose, Aaron Ciechanover and myself, I would like to express our deep gratitude to the Nobel Foundation and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for bestowing upon us this greatest honor and scientific…