Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech delivered by Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978, Oslo, December 10, 1978. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: has awarded the Peace Prize for 1978 to Anwar al-Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem…

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany. He was an inventor and designer of electrical control gear, later also a patent attorney. An active leader in professional…

My mother and father each came from simple country backgrounds, but both showed an early inclination for scholarly pursuits. They eventually met as school teachers in a local Panama City, Florida high school and were married in 1929. The following year, my father was appointed Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Florida at…

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16 October 1978 STUDIES OF DECISION-MAKING LEAD TO PRIZE IN ECONOMICS has decided to award the 1978 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Herbert A. Simon, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations. Simon’s scientific output goes far beyond the disciplines in which he has…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sune Carlson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In Saint Exupéry’s book Le Petit Prince, there is a delightful story about how the little prince during his journey through the cosmos visits a planet inhabited by an old and learned man. He…

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