Nobel Prize

Hartmut Michel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1988 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Seven weeks have passed since it has been announced that Hans Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and myself have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For me the greatest experience was to see how many, many people were…

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Interview transcript Professor Hartmut Michel, welcome. Hartmut Michel: Thank you. You’ll have a short talk with us here today. It’s a few years now since you received the prize, in chemistry. What is it today that you have use for in what you discovered at that time or what are you using,…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1988 A Structural Basis of Light Energy and Electron Transfer in Biology Pdf 1.21 MkB

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Interview transcript Professor Robert Huber, thank you for joining us here in Lindau. Today and during the Lindau Meeting there are many opportunities for young students to meet great scientists. What does it give you? Robert Huber: I like to interact, to speak with students, and I just like to encourage them…

Swedish Utdrag ur Midaqq-gränden I Mycket vittnar om att Midaqq-gränden är en ädelsten från gångna tider och att den en gång lyst som en strålande stjärna i Kairos ärofulla historia. Vilket Kairo menar jag? Fatimidernas? Mamluckernas? Sultanernas? Det vet endast Allah och arkeologerna men Gränden är i vilket fall ett monument och ett dyrbart sådant.…

Arabic Excerpt from Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al-Midaq) Excerpt from Zuqaq al-Midaq Copyright © 1947 by Naguib Mahfouz Reprinted by arrangement with the American University in Cairo Press.

Excerpt from Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz Courtesy: Norstedts English Chapter One Many things combine to show that Midaq Alley is one of the gems of times gone by and that it once shone forth like a flashing star in the history of Cairo. Which Cairo do I mean? That of the Fatimids, the Mamlukes…

  Excerpts from Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber – Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001. This celebratory volume was published at the occasion of Naguib Mahfouz’ 90th birthday, and is a collection of conversations between the author and his friend Mohamed Salmawy, Egyptian writer and journalist. Introduction In the early evening of Friday, 14 October…