Nobel Prize

Sir Charles Sherrington’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1932 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I rise in response to the kind toast given by Professor Gunnar Holmgren, and I esteem it a privilege to tender my thanks to him, in this company and in this City renowned for…

Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen FRIENDS! On behalf of my husband, Tomas Tranströmer, I want you to know how honored and how moved he is to receive the Nobel Prize. Thank you Swedish Academy: thank you for your courage and your beautiful prize citation. Special thanks to all…

Sir Alexander Fleming’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 For many years I have read of people getting the Nobel Prize. Then I always regarded them as a superior class to which it was almost impossible to aspire. Now suddenly I find myself in that class and I wonder whether they…

Sir Howard Florey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should wish in the first place to thank most sincerely the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Physiology and Medicine for the very great honour you have conferred on me today. My colleagues…

Ernst B. Chain’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to express to you my deep gratitude for the very great honour conferred on me by the award of a Nobel prize which has come to be regarded universally as the…

Robert Hofstadter’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for the great honor conferred upon me. Since I am the last speaker you will appreciate my difficulty in saying…

Rudolf Mössbauer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 (in German) Eure Majestäten, Königliche Hoheiten, Hochansehnliche Festversammlung. Im vergangenen Herbst hatte ich zum ersten Mal Gelegenheit Ihr gastfreundliches Land und einige seiner schönen wissenschaftlichen Institutionen kennenzulernen. Damals konnte ich nicht ahnen, dass es mir vergönnt sein würde so kurze Zeit später und…

Herbert A. Hauptman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I speak for Jerome Karle, as well as myself when I say that our journey to Stockholm began some 67 years ago when our parents, with unconscious wisdom, gave us a most precious gift, the freedom…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, On this occasion I have much to celebrate. I rejoice in the opportunities I have had in many diverse branches of science over the past fifty years. Starting in mathematics, using fundamental principles of physics, aided by developing power of computer science I have…

Richard R. Ernst’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1991 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed a great moment for me to stand where I am standing to express my deep gratitude to the Nobel Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Obviously, most of the glory should fall on those…