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Italian Eugenio Montale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 (in Italian) Maestà, Altezze Reali, Signore, Signori, Durante un periodo abbastanza lungo della mia vita oltre vent’anni la libertà di stampa era piuttosto ridotta in Italia. Ma i poeti non erano considerati pericolosi e ad essi era consigliata l’autocensura. Tutt’al più ai poeti si…

English Eugenio Montale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 (Translation) Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During a fairly long period of my life, for more than 20 years, freedom of press was somewhat reduced in Italy. But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise selfcensorship. At…

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  Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1975 Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives I am deeply excited by that high honour which fell on my lot and I am happy for the opportunity to appear here as a participant of this honorable series of lectures. In our time mathematics has penetrated…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1975 Concepts of Optimality and Their Uses Pdf 684 kB

Tjalling C. Koopmans’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Also on behalf of my colleague and co-recipient of the 1975 award for economics, I wish to thank the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Foundation, and all our other institutional and personal hosts for the…

Born: January 19, 1912, Petersburg (Leningrad), USSR Education: Leningrad University, 1930 Civil Status: Married (to Natalie), two children (D. and S.)     Fellowships and honors 1944 Order Signe of Honor 1949 Order of Labor Red Banner 1949 State Prize 1958 Member-Correspondent, USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician (1964) 1965 Lenin Prize (together with V.V. Novogilov…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 Chirality in Chemistry Pdf 646 kB

John Cornforth’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us. Our backgrounds, and the…