Nobel Prize

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…

Felix Bloch’s Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1952 It is my great privilege to address the academic youth on behalf of the Nobel Prize winners of the year 1952. First of all, let me thank you for your felicitations, for your cheers, and for your beautiful songs. In talking…

E. M. Purcell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1952 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and gentlemen, The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists…

Willis E. Lamb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a privilege, an honor and a pleasure to be here tonight. I would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for considering me worthy of their great award. At the…

Polykarp Kusch’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, No previous experience in life has given me the same sense of humility as the present one. This feeling is inevitable in view of the many illustrious names which adorn the roll of those whom…

Emilio Segrè’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. My eloquence is totally inadequate to add anything to the thanks so well expressed by the laureates who preceded me on this rostrum. I am sure that apart from our ability to express them, our feelings…