Nobel Prize

Elihu Root (February 15, 1845-February 7, 1937), who became one of the most brilliant administrators in American history, was born in Clinton, New York, son of a professor of mathematics at Hamilton College. Perhaps it was inevitable that the father and Elihu’s elder brother, who was also a mathematician, should be nicknamed «Cube» and «Square».…

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Presentation Speech by Ragnvald Moe, Secretary to the on December 10, 1913 Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845, in the State of New York and took his degree in law at New York University in 1867. At a later date he studied international law and took his doctorate in 1894. For some years…

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Alexis Carrel was born at Lyons, France, on June 28, 1873. He was the son of a business man, also named Alexis Carrel, who died when his son was very young. Alexis was educated at home by his mother Anne Ricard, and also at St. Joseph School, Lyons. In 1889 he took the degree of…

Presentation Speech by Professor J. Åkerman, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1912 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Royal Caroline Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Doctor Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller…

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François Auguste Victor Grignard was born in Cherbourg on May 6, 1871. He attended local schools during 1883-87 and in 1889 he won a scholarship to the École Normale Spécial at Cluny. After two years, the school, which was intended to produce teachers for modern secondary schools, was closed because of a dispute between supporters…