Nobel Prize

https://youtu.be/5k_sISTkG4E Tasuku Honjo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of Professor Jim Allison and myself, I wish to express our heartful appreciation to the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation. Cancer has been the No. 1…

https://youtu.be/EnLdBiu7ci8 Frances H. Arnold’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. Let me start with a question: “Why did Newton’s apple fall to the ground?” First the answer from the physicist: “There is a force called gravity that exists between any two objects,…

https://youtu.be/vzHE4TDYjsI Donna Strickland’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2018. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my honour to represent the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 and speak on behalf of Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou, my esteemed colleagues with whom I share the prize. Arthur Ashkin…

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…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1954, the speech was read by John M. Cabot, United States Ambassador to Sweden «Having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric, I wish to thank the administrators…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Robert Kennedy once said, “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not.” Those words reveal a deep truth about Kennedy: he was an economist at heart – startling though that may…

Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar Jag vill tacka för äran att vara här, tacka Svenska Akademien, tacka svenska folket och jag vill också tacka skogen. It’s a great pleasure, it’s a great honour to be with you tonight, and I acknowledge this honour which is done to me…

Rainer Weiss’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. All three of us, Barry, Kip and I, represent about 1000 scientists, engineers, technicians, students and administrators who together made LIGO’s gravitational wave discoveries being celebrated here tonight. We also celebrate Ronald Drever,…

Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Exellencies Dear Laureates, Students, Ladies and gentlemen, Today I am speaking for Prof. Kajita and our two scientific Collaborations, SuperKamiokande and SNO, of which there are a number of representatives here with us today. We would like to express our profound thanks to your Majesties, to the…