Nobel Prize

Richard H. Thaler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, dear laureates, ladies and gentlemen. I had to run back because I decided we had a deficiency of toasts. So I will end this with a toast. I’m truly, truly humbled to be standing here today. My…

Kazuo Ishiguro’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. I remember vividly the large face of a foreigner, a Western man, illustrated in rich colours, dominating the whole page of my book. Behind this looming face, to one side, was smoke and dust from an…

Jacques Dubochet’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of Prof Joachim Frank, Prof Richard Henderson and myself we wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. The world is large, very large. My head…

Michael Rosbash’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2017. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of professors Mike Young, Jeff Hall and myself, I want to express our profound gratitude to the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute and the Nobel Foundation. We are being honored…

Nicolaas Bloembergen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege to address you on behalf of all three recipients of the 1981 Nobel award in physics. The reason that I have been chosen as spokesman is not clear; it would not be effective…

Percy W. Bridgman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 It is my pleasant duty on behalf of my colleagues in physics, Messrs. and , as well as on my own behalf, to express our deep appreciation and gratitude for the high honor that has been bestowed upon us. It is, I…

Patrick M.S. Blackett’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 The honour which has been bestowed on me by the award by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden of a Nobel Prize for Physics gives me a feeling of deep satisfaction and personal pride. However, I like to think of the…

Hideki Yukawa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1949 The Nobel-Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a great benefit not only to myself, but also to all the Japanese, because they were all extremely rejoiced by the decision of the Academy and they were very much encouraged by it…

Ernest T.S. Walton’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult…

John Cockcroft’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The award of the Nobel Prize is the greatest honour which can come to a member of the scientific world and I hardly need tell you how proud I am and with what…