Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1969 Symmetry and Currents in Particle Physics [Professor Gell-Mann has presented his Nobel Lecture, but did not submit a manuscript for inclusion in this volume.]

Interview transcript Welcome to this interview, Professor Murray Gell-Mann. Murray Gell-Mann: Well, thank you. Actually I don’t know, maybe I could speak Swedish to you, because the story goes that when you got the news about the Nobel Prize in 1969, in October, you prepared your speech in Swedish for the December…

Murray Gell-Mann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the…

Louis Néel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Je suis heureux d’avoir ici l’occasion de remercier l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Suède pour la distinction qui ma été accordée et qui, par mon intermédiaire, honore la Physique française et en particulier l’Ecole française de…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1970 Magnetism and the Local Molecular Field Pdf 8.09 MB

Hannes Alfvén’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970 Ers Majestät, Era Kungliga Högheter, Mina Damer och Herrar, I raden av tacktalare skall jag utnyttja den färdighet, som i hela vår grupp endast Ulf von Euler och jag besitter, den att kunna tala svenska. Jag vill på svenska uttala ett varmt tack…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1971 Holography, 1948-1971 Pdf 2.50 MB

Dennis Gabor’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1971 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured and rewarded far beyond my most sanguine expectations. My thanks go to the Nobel Committee, and also to that great, unhappy man who has given me this great happiness; Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel’s personality…

John Bardeen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1972 Mr. Prime Minister, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1972 Electron-Phonon Interactions and Superconductivity Pdf 213 kB