Physics
Alfred Kastler – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Hans Bethe – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Hans Bethe’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. I am deeply grateful to you for bestowing on me the Nobel Prize. For many decades this Prize has been regarded as the highest honor which can be awarded to a scientist. I feel quite…
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Nobel Prize lecture
Luis Alvarez – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Luis Alvarez’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1968 Your Majesty. Your Royal Highnesses, your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I learned much of the physics I know from two men who preceded me to this banquet table – and . Because Ernest Lawrence’s award came in the war years, I had the…
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Nobel Prize lecture
Murray Gell-Mann – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
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…
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Nobel Prize lecture
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.]
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Interview
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…
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