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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977 Time, Structure and Fluctuations Pdf 461 kB

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Ilya Prigogine’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is now a little more than eighty years ago that Alfred Nobel decided to create the Nobel Foundation responsible for the attribution of the Nobel Prizes. These eighty years have seen important and sometimes tragic events…

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My father, Harry Warren Anderson, was a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois in Urbana, where I was brought up from 1923 to 1940. Although raised on the farm – my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer – my father and his brother both became professors. My mother’s father was…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1977 by Mümtaz Soysal We are gratified that the Nobel Committee should see fit to award the 1977 Peace Prize to the 168,000 individuals in 107 countries who comprise the active members and supporters of Amnesty International. I am here in their name. We are gratified for this acknowledgement that the…

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Translation from the French text In his memorable series “Etudes sur le temps humain”, Georges Poulet devoted one volume to the “Mesure de l’instant”. There he proposed a classification of authors according to the importance they give to the past, present and future. I believe that in such a typology my position would be an…