Nobel Prize

Interview transcript We sit here in lovely Lindau in the south of Bavaria and this is the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nobelpreisträgertagungen in Lindau. And I have Professor Rudolf Mössbauer, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961. And I’m going to ask you as the first question.…

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French Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs. Cette année, le Comité Nobel de l’Académie Suédoise, en s’acquittant des hautes fonctions qui lui ont été confiées, vient d’attribuer à un écrivain d’un petit pays – comme on dit…

English Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 (Translation) In carrying out the high duties entrusted to it, the Nobel Committee of the has this year awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a signal mark of honour on the international scene, to a writer from a…

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Filets de sole au vin blanc Riz au curry Coq des bois et coq de bruyère froids en gelée Sauce périgourdine Salade Waldorf Poires à la fine champagne Sauce à la vanille VINS Pommery & Greno Brut Château Chauvin 1955 S:t Emilion Café Liqueur Bénédictine D.O.M Cognac Frapin V.S.O.P. BUFFET

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905-September 18, 1961) was the youngest of four sons of Agnes (Almquist) Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, prime minister of Sweden, member of the Hague Tribunal, governor of Uppland, chairman of the Board of the . In a brief piece written for a radio program in 1953, Dag Hammarskjöld…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee The of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Peace Prize for 1961 posthumously to Dag Hammarskjöld. Dag Hammarskjöld was born in 1905, and prior to his appointment as Secretary-General to the Secretariat of the United Nations in 1953, he had been associated with the administration…