1964
Charles H. Townes – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Charles H. Townes’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1964 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen: The wisdom of the Swedish people, the warm interest of Sweden’s Royal Family and the dedication of its Academies have made much more than a reality of Alfred Nobel’s magnificent concept. They…
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Charles H. Townes – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1964 Production of Coherent Radiation by Atoms and Molecules Pdf 956 kB
moreCharles H. Townes – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript Welcome to Stockholm and to the Nobel interview Professor Charles Townes. Charles H. Townes: Thank you. I would like to ask you about lasers that you are the inventor of and also that you got your Nobel Prize in, masers and lasers, you got your Nobel Prize for, I would…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Since the start of the Nobel Foundation the professorial staff of the Karolinska Institute has chosen the prizewinners in Physiology or Medicine. This year the Karolinska Institute has been reorganized…
moreNobel Banquet Menu 1964
Turbot fumé à chaud Sauce gourmet Chaud-froid de gelinotte au foie gras Salade Waldorf Pêches au Grand Marnier Petits fours VINS Pommery & Greno Brut Château des Tonelles 1959, Côtes Fronsac Café Liqueur Marie Brizard Cognac Courvoisier BUFFET
moreKonrad Bloch – Biographical
Biographical
Konrad E. Bloch was born on 21st January 1912, in Neisse, Upper Silesia, then Germany, the son of Fritz Bloch and his wife Hedwig, née Striemer. He attended the elementary school and the Real gymnasium in the same city and in 1930 went to Munich to study chemistry at the Technische Hochschule. He became soon…
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