Nobel Prize

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…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Guests: Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel’s will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a…

K. Barry Sharpless’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2001 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One hundred years ago the first Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to the Dutch Chemist . Although the citation on van ‘t Hoff’s award acknowledges him for “the extraordinary services he rendered by the discovery…

Rolf M. Zinkernagel delivering his speech of thanks at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1996. Rolf M. Zinkernagel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I express Peter Doherty’s and my own gratitude for having been chosen among many immunologists…

Alan Heeger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2000 Your Majesties, Nobel Laureates, Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Ladies and Gentlemen, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa and I are greatly honored to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery and development of conducting polymers”. We would like to dedicate these…

F. Sherwood Rowland’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My friends and colleagues, Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina, and I are most grateful for the honors bestowed upon us today, for the Nobel Prize is the ultimate in recognition in the scientific world. It is…