Nobel Prize

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 9, 1992 The Economic Way of Looking at Life Pdf 590 kB

Derek Walcott’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Representatives of the Nobel Foundation, Honourable Members of the Academies, the Karolinska Institute and Election Committees, Students, Ladies and Gentlemen, The honour that you pay me is accepted in the one name that comprises all of the supposedly broken…

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Verse 25 Poems. – Port-of-Spain : Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948 Epitaph for the Young. Xll Cantos. – Bridgetown : Barbados Advocate, 1949 Poems. – Kingston, Jamaica : City Printery, 1951 In a Green Night. Poems 1948–60. – London : Cape, 1962 Selected Poems. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1964 The Castaway and Other…

Two poems by Derek Walcott Sea Grapes That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband’s longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa’s name in every gull’s outcry. This…

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Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the…

Rudolph A. Marcus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I deeply appreciate the great honor that Your Majesties and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences are bestowing on me today. I believe that it is the entire field of electron transfer, which reaches into many…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1992 Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry: Theory and Experiment Pdf 980 kB

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Trying to capture Derek Walcott’s oceanic work in a formula would be an absurd enterprise – had he not himself come to our assistance, shrewdly hiding a few key formulations in his…