Nobel Prize

I was born in Springside, a village close to Todmorden in west Yorkshire on July 14th, 1921. The house where I was born and indeed most of the village has been demolished by the local council as being unfit for habitation. My father, and his father, also Geoffrey, were both master house painters and decorators,…

Works in English Poetry Thirteen Poems / under the pseudonym Patrick Victor Martindale. – Sydney : Privately printed, ca. 1929 The Ploughman and Other Poems. – Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935 Poems. – Victoria, B.C. : Soft Press, 1974   Novels Happy Valley. – London : Harrap, 1939 The Living and the Dead. – London…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1973, the speech was read by M. Sidney Nolan Your Majesty, and Gentlemen of the Swedish Academy, It is with great regret that I cannot revisit Stockholm on such an occasion as today. But to…

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Ernst Otto Fischer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1973 (in German) Eure Majestät, Königliche Hoheiten, Meine Damen und Herren, Eine festliche, frohgestimmte, grosse Tafelrunde schenkt uns Preisträgern aus so verschiedener Herren Länder an diesem Ehrentag die Freude ihrer Anwesenheit. Dafür sei der Nobel-Stiftung und Ihnen allen herzlich gedankt. Lassen wir in dieser Stunde…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1973 The Long Search for Stable Transition Metal Alkyls Pdf 83 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1973 On the Road to Carbene and Carbyne Complexes Pdf 253 kB

Geoffrey Wilkinson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1973 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My Fellow Students, It is an old English convention that experienced speakers always begin by saying “unaccustomed as I am to public speaking”. In my case it is really true and when I was given the honour…

Wassily Leontief’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1973 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: May I use this occasion to acknowledge first of all my debt and to express my thanks to the many hundreds of professional colleagues, economists and statisticians in my own country and other parts of the world…

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