Nobel Prize

Julian Schwinger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen No words of mine can adequately acknowledge the unbounded courtesy and hospitality that my wife and I have been accorded during this remarkable occasion. But I should like to comment briefly on the…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1965, the speech was read by Mr Tsuruoka, Japanese Ambassador Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Ever since I learned about the nomination for the glorious Nobel Prize in Physics, how much have I not looked forward to the great honour…

Richard P. Feynman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new…

Alfred Kastler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Permettez-moi de vous exprimer ce soir, non pas seulement la gratitude d’un homme, mais celle d’une équipe dont vous avez distingué l’oeuvre collective et que m’a puissamment aidé à former mon collègue et ami Jean Brossel.…

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…

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…

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…

Louis Néel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Je suis heureux d’avoir ici l’occasion de remercier l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Suède pour la distinction qui ma été accordée et qui, par mon intermédiaire, honore la Physique française et en particulier l’Ecole française de…

Hannes Alfvén’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970 Ers Majestät, Era Kungliga Högheter, Mina Damer och Herrar, I raden av tacktalare skall jag utnyttja den färdighet, som i hela vår grupp endast Ulf von Euler och jag besitter, den att kunna tala svenska. Jag vill på svenska uttala ett varmt tack…

Dennis Gabor’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1971 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured and rewarded far beyond my most sanguine expectations. My thanks go to the Nobel Committee, and also to that great, unhappy man who has given me this great happiness; Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel’s personality…