Nobel Prize

John Cockcroft’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The award of the Nobel Prize is the greatest honour which can come to a member of the scientific world and I hardly need tell you how proud I am and with what…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 Experiments on the Interaction of High-Speed Nucleons with Atomic Nuclei Pdf 501 kB

Felix Bloch’s Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1952 It is my great privilege to address the academic youth on behalf of the Nobel Prize winners of the year 1952. First of all, let me thank you for your felicitations, for your cheers, and for your beautiful songs. In talking…

E. M. Purcell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1952 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and gentlemen, The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952 The Principle of Nuclear Induction Pdf 196 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952 Research in Nuclear Magnetism Pdf 114 kB

Willis E. Lamb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a privilege, an honor and a pleasure to be here tonight. I would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for considering me worthy of their great award. At the…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955 Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom Pdf 141 kB

Polykarp Kusch’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, No previous experience in life has given me the same sense of humility as the present one. This feeling is inevitable in view of the many illustrious names which adorn the roll of those whom…

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