Nobel Prize

Chen Ning Yang’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all allow me to thank the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy of Sciences for the kind hospitality that Mrs. Yang and I have so much enjoyed. I also wish to thank…

Tsung-Dao Lee’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Juai Tien Kuo Kuo Wang, Wang Hu, Ke Wai Wang Tze, Ke Wai Rung Chu, Ke Wai Kao Pin: [Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentemen:] To be awarded the Nobel Prize is perhaps the greatest honor that can be bestowed on any…

Elias Canetti’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 (in German) Eure Majestäten, Eure Königlichen Hoheiten, meine Damen und Herren, Einer Stadt, die man kennt, verdankt man viel und einer, die man kennen möchte, wenn man sich lange vergeblich nach ihr sehnt, vielleicht noch mehr. Aber es gibt, glaube ich, im Leben eines Menschen…

Robert F. Curl delivering his speech of thanks at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1996. Robert F. Curl Jr.’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen, Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley and I are deeply grateful for the honors you have given us today. The…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, There is something very mysterious about the Nobel Prize. No prize has anywhere near the status of the Nobel prize. Clearly, the Swedes have a mysterious hold on the world. This stimulated me to go digging in Swedish history. In the old times there…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The three of us (Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and myself) thank the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Foundation for honoring us today. And we thank our students and collaborators, whose help was indispensable in our research. But we also…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, One of the things that happen to people who get the Nobel Prize is that they get a lot of media attention. Many interviews. So many that I begin to feel now that I have lost the capacity for spontaneous thought. I…

Why do you write? This is the question I’ve been asked most often in my writing career. Most of the time they mean this: What is the point, why do you give your time to this strange and impossible activity? Why do you write … You have to give an excuse, an…

English Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Ladies and Gentlemen Dear Friends The trajectory that leads from a child tending cows in the valley to the Stockholm City Hall is a strange one. Here, too, (as is often the case), I am standing beside myself. It was only against my mother’s will that…

German Herta Müller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2009 Eure Majestäten Eure Königlichen Hoheiten Meine Damen und Herren Liebe Freunde Der Bogen von einem Kind, das Kühe hütet im Tal bis hierher ins Rathaus von Stockholm ist bizarr. Ich stehe (wie so…