Nobel Prize

Otto Hahn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 (in German) Der Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und dem Nobelkomite möchte ich meinen tiefgefühlten Dank aussprechen für die grosse Ehre, die sie mir mit der Erteilung des Nobelpreises erwiesen haben, und auch Ihnen, sehr verehrter Herr Präsident Curman, möchte ich herzlich danken für…

Marie Curie’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1911 (in French) Je remercie l’Académie des Sciences du très grand honneur qu’elle m’a fait. Je crois que cet honneur ne s’adresse point uniquement à moi. Pendant de longues années, et moi avons consacré toutes nos journées aux travaux concernant nos découvertes communes du…

I was born on the 8th of October 1918 into a wealthy family in Lemvig, a town in the western part of Denmark. The town is nicely situated on a fjord, which runs across the country from the Kattegat in East to the North Sea in West. It is surrounded by hills, and is only…

The first 21 years of my life were spent in Provo, Utah, then a city of about 15,000 people, beautifully situated at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. Hardy Mormon pioneers had settled the area only 70 years before my birth in 1918. Provo was a well-designed city with stable neighbourhoods, a pride in its…

English 4 October 2017 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet University of Lausanne, Switzerland Joachim Frank Columbia University, New York, USA and Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”   Cool microscope technology…

English 5 October 2016 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre SauvageUniversity of Strasbourg, France Sir J. Fraser StoddartNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Bernard L. FeringaUniversity of Groningen, the Netherlands “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” They developed the world’s smallest machines A tiny lift, artificial muscles…

October 1972 has decided to award the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Christian B. Anfinsen, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation and the other half jointly to Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, booth…

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