Nobel Prize

Harry M. Markowitz’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to express my deepest thanks to the Nobel Foundation for the honor you do us, on behalf of the three of us who are here tonight and on behalf of hundreds of others…

I was born on June 16, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts. At that time my parents had completed their undergraduate educations – my father in English literature, my mother in science. My father was then employed at Harvard University, working in the placement office. In 1940, world events led to the activation of my father’s National…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 7, 1990 Foundations of Portfolio Theory Pdf 154 kB

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Elias J. Corey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, There is a children’s poem by Julia Carney entitled “Little Things,” one verse of which reads: Little drops of water, little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land Thus the little minutes,…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 The Logic of Chemical Synthesis: Multistep Synthesis of Complex Carbogenic Molecules Pdf 761 kB

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I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller. My father, an attorney, was a graduate of Harvard University (A.B. 1916) and in that one respect, at least, I followed in his footsteps, entering Harvard in 1940 and graduating in 1943 (A.B., magna cum laude, Class…

Octavio Paz delivering his Nobel Prize lecture at the Swedish Academy on 8 December 1990. English Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 (Translation) In Search of the Present I begin with two words that all men have uttered since the dawn of humanity: thank you. The word gratitude has equivalents in every language and in each…

Spanish Conferencia Nobel 1990 La búsqueda del presente Comienzo con una palabra que todos los hombres, desde que el hombre es hombre, han proferido: gracias. Es una palabra que tiene equivalentes en todas las lenguas. Y en todas es rica la gama de significados. En las lenguas romances va de lo espiritual a lo físico,…