Physics

Banquet speech

Emilio Segrè’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. My eloquence is totally inadequate to add anything to the thanks so well expressed by the laureates who preceded me on this rostrum. I am sure that apart from our ability to express them, our feelings…

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Banquet speech

Owen Chamberlain’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am deeply moved by the great honor the Royal Swedish Academy of Science has bestowed upon me. I doubt that any man could feel himself worthy of this great distinction. Certainly I…

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Interview

Interview transcript We are now in Lindau, a small town in southern Germany, and this is the celebration, the 50th anniversary of the Nobelprizeträgertagungen and I am here with Professor Donald Glaser. Professor Glaser could you tell us a little bit why did you become physicist? Donald Glaser: As…

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Banquet speech

Donald A. Glaser’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, As my fellow laureates in science have just emphasized to you, the advance of modern science is possible only because of the complete cooperation and collaboration of many scientists. We depend heavily not…

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