1974
Seán MacBride – Biographical
Biographical
Seán MacBride was born on January 26, 1904 in Paris. He took an active part in the movement for Irish independence and suffered imprisonment on several occasions. 1947-1958 Member of Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament). 1948-1951 Minister for External Affairs for Ireland in Inter-Party Government. In 1954 was offered but declined, Ministerial Office in Irish Government.…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the , Norwegian Storting Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: A few years before he drew up his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel observed in a letter to that his dynamite factories would be able to bring wars to an end a…
moreChristian de Duve – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on October 2nd 1917, in Thames-Ditton, near London. My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Jan- Erik Edström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concerns the fine structure and the function of the cell, a subject designated Cell Biology. There are no earlier Prize Winners in this field,…
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