Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Knudsen, Presiding, on December 10, 1906 As the meets today, the tenth of December, perhaps for the last time in this hall, to announce to the Norwegian Parliament its decision concerning the award of the Peace Prize, it is appropriate to recall that the Norwegian Parliament was one of the first…

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Stang, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1936 Carl von Ossietzky, who has been awarded the Peace Prize for 1935, belongs to no political party. He is not a Communist; he is not in any sense a conservative. Indeed, one cannot easily pin on him any of the usual political…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has this year awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Belgian Dominican, Father Georges Pire, for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity. Father Pire’s work is known to all of us in Western…

Presentation by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1908 On behalf of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, I have the honor to extend a welcome to all who have assembled here on this occasion commemorating the great Swedish patron and benefactor, Alfred Nobel, who gave the whole of his…

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee This year the of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded two Peace Prizes. The prize for 1960 goes to Albert John Lutuli, and the prize for 1961 is awarded posthumously to Dag Hammarskjöld. In many respects these two recipients differ widely. Albert John Lutuli’s life…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2004 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Peace Prize Laureate, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.…

Toast by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the on May 16, 1904 Dear Mr. Ducommun, when the Committee of the Norwegian Parliament was asked to honor and reward the work of peace, our thoughts immediately turned to the men who have done this work during the long difficult years when it was received with a…

Presentation Speech by Gidske Anderson, Chairperson of the Norwegian Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has made this award in recognition of the leading role he has played in the radical…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Shortly after the atomic bombs were exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, made this statement: “The time has come now, when man must give up war. It is no longer rational to solve international problems by resorting to war. Now that an atomic bomb, such as the bombs…

Francis Sejersted delivering his speech. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our world has for fifty years now been living in the knowledge that weapons exist powerful enough to wipe out human life on earth. The atom bombs…