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  Presentation Speech by Professor Assar Lindbeck, Stockholm School of Economics Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentleman. One of the salient features of the development of economics during the last decades is the increased degree of formalization of the analytical techniques brought about partly with the aid of mathematical methods. We can perhaps…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee In the will and testament drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobel on November 27, 1895, he laid down the conditions to be fulfilled by a recipient of the Nobel Prize. Paragraph One states, inter alia, that the award of the prize shall be made…

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The Green Revolution Revisited and the Road Ahead by Norman Borlaug 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 26 September 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug presented his anniversary lecture at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. An agricultural scientist, Borlaug’s work in food production and hunger alleviation was recognized through the Nobel Peace Prize in…

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Julius Axelrod was born on May 30th, 1912, in New York City. He obtained his B. Sc. in 1933 at the College of the City of New York, M. A. in 1941 at New York University, and Ph. D. in 1955 from the George Washington University. From 1933 to 1935 he was Laboratory Assistant at…

Ulf S. von Euler was born in Stockholm on February 7th, 1905, as the second son of and Astrid Cleve. His father was born in Augsburg, Germany, as the only son of general Rigas von Euler-Chelpin. Hans von Euler-Chelpin received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1929. Ulf’s mother was the daughter of Per Teodor…

Bernard Katz was born on March 26th, 1911, in Leipzig, Germany, of Russian Jewish origin, only son of Max Katz and Eugenie Rabinowitz. His school education was at the Albert Gymnasium in Leipzig (1921-1929). He studied Medicine at the University of Leipzig, 1929-1934; received the Siegfried Garten Prize for physiological research in 1933 and obtained…