Nobel Prize

Interview with Naguib Mahfouz by writer and journalist Mohamed Salmawy in March, 2006. Mohamed Salmawy: What did you feel when you knew you had won the Nobel Prize for Literature? Naguib Mahfouz: I felt extreme happiness as well as great astonishment. I never expected to win the prize. During my time Nobel was awarded to…

Translations into English Midaq Alley / translated from Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick. – Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, cop. 1966 God’s World : an Anthology of Short Stories / transl. with an introd. by Akef Abadir and Roger Allen. – Minneapolis : Bibl. Islamica, 1973 Mirrors : a novel / transl.…

English Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1988 Read at the Swedish Academy by Mr. Mohamed Salmawy(first in Arabic, then in English) (Translation) Ladies and Gentlemen, To begin with I would like to thank the and its Nobel committee for taking notice of my long and perseverant endeavours, and I would like you to accept my talk…

Interview transcript Professor Leon Lederman, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You have won the Nobel Prize in 1988 and this was for your research in elementary particle physics and the last century was really a very exciting time in physics and some people maybe say that all the major…

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I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time. My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education…

19 October 1988 has decided to award the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Dr. Johann Deisenhofer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, Texas, USA (German citizen) Professor Robert Huber, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany and Dr. Hartmut Michel, Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt/Main, Federal Republic of Germany, for the determination of the…

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