Nobel Prize

John Hume delivering his Nobel Peace Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 1998 Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to begin by expressing my deep appreciation and gratitude to the Nobel committee for bestowing this honour on me…

English Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1992 (Translation) Your Majesties, the King and Queen of Norway,The Honorable Members of the Nobel Peace Committee,Your Excellency, the Prime Minister,Your Excellencies, Members of the Government and the Diplomatic Corps,Dear Guatemalan countrymen and women,Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having…

Spanish Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1992 (in Spanish) Honorables señores del Comité Nobel de la Paz,Sus majestades los Reyes de Noruega,Excelentísima señora Primer Ministro,Excelentísimos miembros de gobiernos y del Cuerpo Diplomático,Apreciables compatriotas guatemaltecos,Señoras y señores. Me llena de emoción y orgullo la distinción que se me hace al otorgarme el Premio Nobel de…

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Nobel Lecture, January 9, 1989 by Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like first of all, to once again thank the Norwegian Nobel Committee for the award they have made to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. Their decision has been acclaimed all over the world. I take this…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1985 by Yevgeny Chazov, USSR Cardiological Institute, co-founder of IPPNW Tragedy and Triumph of Reason Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, Physicist Leo Szilard, one of those who persuaded Albert Einstein to appeal to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to go on with the development of A-bomb, in his last years wrote science…

Polish Przemowienie Lecha Wałęsy Láureata Pokojowej Nagrody NoblaOslo, Dnia 11 Grudnia 1983 Roku Panie, Panowie Zwracam się do Was jako laureat Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla za rok 1983, polski robotnik ze Stoczni Gdańskiej, jeden z organizatorów niezależnego ruchu związkowego w Polsce. Najłatwiej byłoby mi powiedzieć, że nie jestem godzien tego wyjątkowego wyróżnienia. Kiedy jednak wspominam chwilę,…

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1983 (Translation) Ladies and Gentlemen, Addressing you, as the winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, is a Polish worker from the Gdansk Shipyard, one of the founders of the independent trade union movement in Poland. It would be the simplest thing for me to say that I am not…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1982 Disarmament, Technology and the Growth in Violence Mr. Chairman, Honored guests: In the first place it is my obvious and at the same time most pleasant duty to express my gratitude for the honor that has been accorded me by the award of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize. May I…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1982 The Latin American Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone In seems advisable to point out from the outset that the Latin American nuclear-weapon-free zone has the privilege of being the only one in existence which covers densely inhabited territories. Outside it only in Antarctica, the Outer Space and the sea bed are similar…