Nobel Prize

English Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002 (Translation) Today we are experiencing a globalization, an inflation of the Holocaust. The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering, observes it all from the perspective assigned to him.…

German Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002 Wir erleben heute eine Globalisierung, ja eine Inflation des Holocaust. Der Holocaust-Überlebende, der Auschwitz aus lebendiger Erfahrung kennt, beobachtet das alles aus der ihm zugewiesenen Ecke. Er schweigt, oder er gibt der…

Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen The great economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote: “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.” 83 years and much research later, we would perhaps aspire to be compared with…

Vos Majestés Vos Altesses Royales Excellences; Chers Lauréats; Mesdames et Messieurs; La cérémonie qui vient de se dérouler m’a profondément ému, et témoigne de la générosité et de la grâce avec laquelle vous m’avez reçu parmi vous. Cela, je ne l’oublierai jamais. Je n’oublierai jamais la gentillesse et la délicatesse des membres…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen On behalf of my colleagues May-Britt and Edvard Moser, and myself, I would like to express our gratitude to the Nobel Foundation for hosting this magnificent banquet. I would also like to express our gratitude to the Nobel Committee and Assembly for…

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…