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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Medical Prize has been awarded this year to the famous surgeon, Professor Theodor Kocher of Bern, in recognition of his work concerning the physiology, pathology and surgery of the…

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Wilhelm Ostwald was born on September 2, 1853, in Riga, Latvia, as the son of master-cooper Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald and Elisabith Leuckel. He was educated at the “Real gymnasium” there and in 1872 was admitted to Dorpat University to read chemistry. After taking his final examinations three years later, he obtained the post of assistant…

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Presentation Speech by the former Rector General of National Antiquities, Dr. H. Hildebrand, President of , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has resolved to award the former professor at Leipzig University and Geheimrat, Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1909 in recognition…

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Presentation Speech by Claes Annerstedt, President of the , on December 10, 1909 History tells us that there was a time when Sweden fought for a world prize on the field of martial honour. The time of arms has passed, but in the international competition for peaceful prizes our people have for a long time…

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