Nobel Prize

Walter Norman Haworth was born at Chorley, Lancashire, on March 19, 1883. He attended the local school until the age of fourteen when he joined his father, Thomas Haworth, to learn linoleum design and manufacture. His interest in chemistry was aroused through the use of dyestuffs in his work and his thirst for further knowledge…

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To the most important chemical compounds belongs a group of substances named carbohydrates. They have been so called because of their composition, which is such that they may be…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1937 The recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1937, Roger Martin du Gard, has dedicated most of his activity to a single work, a long series of novels with the collective title, Les Thibault (1922-40). It is a vast work…

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Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, attended two of the finest Paris lycees and, in 1906, was graduated from the École des Chartes with a thesis on an archaeological subject and with the degree of archivist-paleographer. To this training in history and scholarship he attributes his scrupulous realism and attention to minute…

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Clinton Davisson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1937 Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Before coming to Stockholm I talked in London with Professor and Mrs. Thomson who regret exceedingly their inability to be here on this great occasion. It is Professor Thomson’s desire that the spirit of my remarks be taken…

Nobel Lecture, June 7, 1938 Electronic Waves Ever since last November, I have been wanting to express in person my gratitude to the generosity of Alfred Nobel, to whom I owe it that I am privileged to be here today, especially since illness prevented me from doing so at the proper time. The idealism which…

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