Nobel Prize

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…

Richard H. Thaler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, dear laureates, ladies and gentlemen. I had to run back because I decided we had a deficiency of toasts. So I will end this with a toast. I’m truly, truly humbled to be standing here today. My…

Kazuo Ishiguro’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. I remember vividly the large face of a foreigner, a Western man, illustrated in rich colours, dominating the whole page of my book. Behind this looming face, to one side, was smoke and dust from an…

Jacques Dubochet’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of Prof Joachim Frank, Prof Richard Henderson and myself we wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. The world is large, very large. My head…

Michael Rosbash’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of professors Mike Young, Jeff Hall and myself, I want to express our profound gratitude to the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation. We are being honored…

Nicolaas Bloembergen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege to address you on behalf of all three recipients of the 1981 Nobel award in physics. The reason that I have been chosen as spokesman is not clear; it would not be effective…