Nobel Prize

Manfred Eigen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (in German) Eure Majestät, Eure Königliche Hoheiten, meine Damen und Herren: In der Laudatio, die uns soeben bei der Verleihung des Chemie-Nobelpreises verlesen wurde, heißt es von „sehr schnellen Reaktionen”, „Störungen von (chemischen) Gleichgewichten”, „Blitzlichtphotolyse” und „(chemischer) Relaxation”. Nun, es war schon eine…

Ronald G.W. Norrish’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As one who was brought up in the old tradition of chemical teaching when such names as Scheele, Priestly, Lavoisier, Berzelius and Liebig stood out as beacon lights along the road of…

George Porter’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentemen: It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow. When the honour is given to that…

Susumu Tonegawa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have great difficulties in finding proper words to express my heartfelt gratitude to those in the Committee and Assembly who considered my work worthy of this ultimate recognition. It is, indeed, a high honor that you…

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet’s Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1960 Students! On behalf of my fellow laureates may I thank you most warmly for your tribute and good wishes. For all of us this is probably the greatest day of our lives – and for myself it has a…

Keffer Hartline’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish I could adequately express my feelings of pleasure and deep gratitude for this great honor that has come to me. But of course this is impossible – one cannot convey one’s personal feelings…

Emil von Behring’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1901 (in German) Trotz seiner verhältnismässig geringen Einwohneranzahl hat Schweden auffallend wirksam in den Gang der Menschengeschichte und immer in solcher Weise eingegriffen, dass man den Eindruck des Gewaltigen davon tragen muss. Ich erinnere hier an die vorgeschichtlichen mythischen Gestalten, die in unseren…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Nobel Laureates, fellow scientists, ladies and gentlemen, dear family. On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi–periodic crystals. However, today I am joined by many hundreds of enthusiastic scientists worldwide. I…

Your Majesties, Members of the Nobel Assembly, Distinguished Guests, I am greatly honored having been selected this year’s Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine. I would like to thank my teachers for their guidance and my coworkers for their inspiration and hard work. This Nobel Prize in Medicine is the last one…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, My Teachers, My Students, and My Students Who Have Become My Teachers: My good and dear friend Chris Sims and I thank you for recognizing the many women and men like us who use statistics and economic theory to understand how governments…