Nobel Prize

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What a week, what a day, and what a night …! I cannot imagine anything more exhilarating than to stand here this evening – also on behalf of my colleagues W. E. Moerner and Eric Betzig – thanking the Swedish Academy and the Nobel…

Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues and Friends: On behalf of my co-recipients, Professor Isamu Akasaki and Professor Hiroshi Amano, I would like to thank the Members of the Nobel Prize selection committee, and members of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science for honouring our invention of the efficient blue-light…

Jan Tinbergen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel that I should speak in the name of three entities, if I may say so. First of all in the name of all economists, that it looks as if from now…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honored Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen Let me begin by thanking the committee for granting this year’s prize in Economic Sciences to me, my colleague Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. I have learned much over the years from Lars’s work and from listening to his…

Your majesties, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of my colleagues Jim Rothman and Tom Südhof, I am deeply honored and humbled by the recognition you have bestowed on us today. I view this occasion as one of the great moments of my life, one that I am thrilled to…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellences, Ladies and Gentleman. It is a great honour for François Englert and me to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics and we wish to express our sincere gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. It is a matter of great…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Laureates and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen We all know the wonderful image popularized by Isaac Newton, of how he could see so far only because he stood on the shoulders of giants. That image describes well how my work has built on that of my…

by 1970 Prize Winner in Economics Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The dream of any scholar has for me come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace. Imagine then how my subject of economics–the oldest of the arts,…

Remarks at the Award Ceremony by Anders Johnsen Buen, President of the Norwegian Parliament, on December 10, 1920 The letter from the of the Norwegian Parliament reads as follows: “The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has the honor of announcing herewith its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919 to the President…

Remarks at the Award Ceremony by Anders Johnsen Buen, President of the Norwegian Parliament, on December 10, 1920 The letter from the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament reads as follows: “The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has the honor of announcing herewith its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919 to…