Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1934 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. A short time ago a politician of prominent rank, when speaking on a festal occasion, remarked that at the present day it might appear to be an actual…

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Harold Clayton Urey was born in Walkerton, Indiana, on April 29, 1893, as the son of the Rev. Samuel Clayton Urey and Cora Rebecca Reinoehl, and grandson of pioneers who settled in Indiana. His early education in rural schools led to his graduation from high school in 1911 after which he taught for three years…

Works in Italian Poetry Mal giocondo, 1889 Pasqua di Gea, 1891 Elegie renane, 1895 La Zampogna, 1901 Fuor di chiave, 1912   Short fiction Amori senza amore, 1894 Quand’ero matto, 1902 Beffe della morte e della vita. – 2 vol. – 1902-1903 Bianche e nere, 1904 Erma bifronte, 1906 La vita nuda, 1910 Terzetti, 1912…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1934 The work of Luigi Pirandello is extensive. As an author of novellas he certainly is without equal in output, even in the primary country of this literary genre. Boccaccio’s Decameron contains one hundred novellas; Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno (1922-37) has…

Luigi Pirandello(1867-1936) was born in Girgenti, Sicily. He studied philology at Rome and at Bonn and wrote a dissertation on the dialect of his native town (1891). From 1897 to 1922 he was professor of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di Magistere Femminile at Rome. Pirandello’s work is impressive by its sheer volume.…

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