Nobel Prize

Edward C. Kendall’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to express my appreciation to the faculty of the Caroline Institute for the invitation to be with you tonight, not as a guest, but in the role of one of the participants. The…

Tadeus Reichstein’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 (in German) Hochansehnliche Versammlung, Wir sind hier alle mit Ehrungen und Freundschaftszeichen derart überschüttet worden, dass es fast unmöglich ist, den aufsteigenden Gefühlen passenden Ausdruck zu geben. Der Wissenschaftler liebt es im allgemeinen zwar mehr, im Stillen arbeiten zu können und scheut das…

Philip S. Hench’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The generous manner in which the Nobel Foundation, the Karolinska Institutet and you have expressed approval of the efforts of Dr. Reichstein, Dr. Kendall, our associates and myself elicits an emotional response which perhaps I am physician enough…

Eure Majestäten und Ihre Königliche Hoheit, hocherfreute Preistäger, werte Gäste, Lange ist’s her. Mitte September 1964 traf sich in der Nähe Stockholms, nämlich in Sigtuna, die „Gruppe 47”, eine Vereinigung deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller, die sich nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges gefunden hatte; oder besser: die der Einladung des Schriftstellers Hans Werner Richter gefolgt…

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…

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1991 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This is the first, and probably the last, time in my life where I have dinner with queens and princesses. I am worried. I suspect that with the chimes of midnight I will be turned into…

Aaron Klug’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to express my profound gratitude for the distinction with which you have honoured me today. Ever since I heard the news of the Royal Swedish Academy’s decision, and even since arriving in Stockholm,…

Seamus Heaney’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Today’s ceremonies and tonight’s banquet have been mighty and memorable events. Nobody who has shared in them will ever forget them, but for the laureates these celebrations have had a unique importance. Each of us has participated…

Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (in Russian)

English Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (Translation) Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Many Nobel Prize laureates have appeared before you in this hall, but the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation have probably never had as much bother with anyone as…