1967

Banquet speech

English Miguel Angel Asturias’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (Translation) My voice on the threshold. My voice coming from afar. On the threshold of the . It is difficult to become a member of a family. And it is easy. The stars know it. The families…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Spanish Conferencia Nobel, el 12 de diciembre de 1967 La novela latinoamericana Testimonio de una época Hubiera querido que a este encuentro no se le llamara conferencia sino coloquio, diálogo de dudas y afirmaciones sobre el tema que nos ocupa. Empezaremos analizando los antecedentes de la literatura latinoamericana en general, deteniendo nuestra atención en aquellos…

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Saumon fumé Fond d´artichauts aux épinards Crème raifort Canard sauvage provençale Sauce madère et salade Poire Nobel Gala VINS Pommery & Greno Brut Château Laurensanne 1961 Café Liqueurs Marie Brizard & Strega Cognac Courvoisier BUFFET

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Summary

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Biographical

George Wald was born in New York City on November 18th, 1906, of immigrant parents, Isaac, who had come from a village near Przemysl, in what was then Austrian Poland, and Ernestine Rosenmann, from a small village near Munich, in Bavaria. After attending public primary and secondary I schools in Brooklyn, he received the degree…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Light, shadows and colours do not exist in the world around us. What we perceive visually and call light is the result of the action of a certain portion of…

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