Nobel Prize

Willard F. Libby’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 Today we see more clearly than ever how any single piece of research in science is due to the efforts of many people. You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues…

Jaroslav Heyrovsky’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Having obtained the highest scientific distinction to be laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1959, I have the pleasant duty to thank most cordially to the Nobel Foundation and to the Royal…

Frederick Sanger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I had the good fortune about ten years ago to visit this country and to work for a few months in the Laboratory of Professor at Uppsala, I did not succeed in…

Lord Todd’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I find it hard to express adequately my appreciation of the honour which has been done me – for surely the bestowal of a Nobel Prize is the greatest honour a man of…

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood’s Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1956 May it please Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Students of Stockholm. Replying to this toast is a great responsibility for two reasons. On the one hand I have to speak for colleagues in a variety of different subjects and from…

Nikolay Semenov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1956 (Translation) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames et messieurs, Qu’il me soit permis d’exprimer ici, au nom de Sir Hinshelwood et personnellement, la profonde et cordiale reconnaissance qu’éveillent en nous le grand honneur d’avoir été désignés pour le prix de chimie de 1956,…

Vincent du Vigneaud’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to express to you my deep appreciation for the honor that you have bestowed upon me by the Nobel Award. This honor is without question the most signal honor that…

Linus Pauling’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1954 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great honor to be chosen as the recipient of a Nobel Prize; not only a great honor, but a great pleasure, and, speaking not only for myself but also for my…

Hermann Staudinger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1953 (in German) Majestät, Königliche Hoheiten, Excellenzen, Hochansehnliche Festversammlung, Durch das Vermächtnis Alfred Nobels sind dank der grossen Bemühungen der Königlich Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und des Karolinischen Institutes Verbindungen unter den Wissenschaftlern der verschiedensten Länder hergestellt worden, die auf Grund ihrer wissenschaftlichen Leistungen…

William F. Giauque’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1949 Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. On this occasion I wish to express our sincere thanks for the many courtesies which we have received from the people of Sweden. This is our first visit here, but I have long had a…