1968

Interview

Interview transcript Professor Nirenberg, thank you for coming to this interview. Marshall W. Nirenberg: You’re very welcome, you’re welcome. We’re very happy to see you here in Lindau. Marshall W. Nirenberg: I’m glad to be here. Great. I just want to start off right away with the day or the night or…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the , Norwegian Storting The last time the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an individual was in 1964. The prize for that year was given to . Today he is no longer alive. On April 4 of this year, so bitter a year for human rights,…

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Avocats au homard Sauce gourmet Selle d´agneau, morilles à la crème Sauce madère et salade Waldorf Parfait glace à l´ananas Petits fours VINS Pommery & Greno Brut Château d´Eyquem 1962 CAFE Liqueurs Crème de Cacao Brizard & Strega Cognac Courvoisier BUFFET

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Biographical

A jurist, humanitarian, and internationalist, René Samuel Cassin (October 5, 1887- ) is one of the world’s foremost proponents of the legal as well as the moral recognition of the rights of man. Neither a pessimist nor an optimist, the peace laureate, eighty-one years old when awarded the prize in 1968, confessed that “men are…

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Biographical

Robert W. Holley was born in Urbana, Illinois, on January 28th, 1922, one of four sons of Charles and Viola Holley. His parents were both educators. He attended public schools in Illinois, California and Idaho, and graduated from Urbana High School in 1938. He studied chemistry at the University of Illinois and received his B.…

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