Nobel Prize

Patrick M.S. Blackett’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 The honour which has been bestowed on me by the award by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden of a Nobel Prize for Physics gives me a feeling of deep satisfaction and personal pride. However, I like to think of the…

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1948 Cloud Chamber Researches in Nuclear Physics and Cosmic Radiation Pdf 689 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1949 Meson Theory in Its Developments Pdf 55 kB

Hideki Yukawa’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1949 The Nobel-Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a great benefit not only to myself, but also to all the Japanese, because they were all extremely rejoiced by the decision of the Academy and they were very much encouraged by it…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950 The Cosmic Radiation Pdf 1006 kB

Ernest T.S. Walton’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 The Artificial Production of Fast Particles Pdf 392 kB

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…