Nobel Prize

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

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 The Artificial Production of Fast Particles Pdf 392 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 Experiments on the Interaction of High-Speed Nucleons with Atomic Nuclei Pdf 501 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, 1952 The Principle of Nuclear Induction Pdf 196 kB

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