Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences this year has decided to award with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry a scientific feat which is less a direct improvement of our material living standards, but…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In our days, the chemistry of natural products attracts a very lively interest. New substances, more or less complicated, more or less useful, are constantly discovered and investigated. For the determination of the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Arne Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the fundamental conditions for life on Earth is the ability of carbon atoms to bind each other to a practically unlimited extent. They form chains, often very branched, but also rings…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1911 This year highly competent persons have proposed several men of letters as candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Several among them presented such great and unusual qualities that it has been very difficult to weigh their respective merits. In…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1922 Jacinto Benavente has devoted his imaginative gifts mainly to the theatre, and it seems as if he has systematically guided the course of his development in this direction through many varieties of experience. But with this imaginative artist,…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1928 In her first novels or novellas, all of them remarkable works, Sigrid Undset painted the present-day world of young women in the environs of Christiania. It was a restless generation, prompt to make the gravest decisions as soon…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the , December 10, 1945 Today Johannes V. Jensen will receive in person the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1944, and we are happy to salute the great Danish writer who since the beginning of the century has been in the front rank, always active, for a…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the On the first page of the remarkable journal kept by André Gide for half a century, the author, then twenty years old, finds himself on the sixth floor of a building in the Latin Quarter, looking for a meeting place for «The Symbolists», the group of…

Presentation Speech by Hjalmar Gullberg, Member of the A long life consecrated to poetry and to beauty has been honoured this year with the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is an old gardener, this Juan Ramón, who has dedicated half a century to the creation of a new rose, a white mystical rose, which will…

  Presentation Speech by Doctor Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the . Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When , compatriot of this year’s Nobel prizewinner in literature, came here in 1963 to receive the same award, he presented at the airport a bunch of hyacinths each to the…