Nobel Prize

John Cornforth’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us. Our backgrounds, and the…

As the Laureate was unable to be present on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1975, the acceptance was read by Elena Bonner Sakharova (Translation) Mr. President, honourable members of the , Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here today because, due to certain strange characteristics of the…

Translation from the Russian text (pdf) I was born on 21 May 1921. My father was a well-known teacher of physics and the author of textbooks, exercise books and works of popular science. I grew up in a large communal apartment where most of the rooms were occupied by my family and relations and only…

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English Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 (Translation) Is Poetry Still Possible? The Nobel Prize has been awarded this year for the seventy-fifth time, if I am not misinformed. And if there are many scientists and writers who have earned this prestigious recognition, the number of those who are living and still working is much smaller.…

Italian Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 È ancora possibile la poesia II premio Nobel è giunto al suo settantacinquesimo turno, se non sono male informato. E se molti sono gli scienziati e gli scrittori che hanno meritato questo prestigioso riconoscimento, assai minore è il numero dei superstiti che vivono e lavorano ancora. Alcuni di essi…

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I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children. Part of my childhood was spent in…

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