Nobel Prize

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…

Willis E. Lamb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a privilege, an honor and a pleasure to be here tonight. I would like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for considering me worthy of their great award. At the…

Polykarp Kusch’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, No previous experience in life has given me the same sense of humility as the present one. This feeling is inevitable in view of the many illustrious names which adorn the roll of those whom…

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…

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…

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…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1962, the speech was held by Mr Belokhvostikov, Ambassador of the Soviet Union (Translation) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs, C’est pour moi un grand honneur que d’avoir à transmettre à l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Suède,…

Eugene Wigner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 I wish to thank first in the names of Drs. Maria Goeppert Mayer and Jensen, as well as in my own name, for the honor we received and for the beautiful celebration, for the truly heart-warming festivities, which we all enjoyed. We are…

Nicolay G. Basov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1964 (in French) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames et Messieurs, Nous sommes heureux, et je parle au nom de mon collègue Prochorov aussi bien qu’en mon nom, nous sommes vraiment heureux d’avoir l’honneur de prendre part à ce dîner solennel en qualité de…