Nobel Prize

The beginning is distant, and was a time when we as a people were without much of the fruits of science that now refine our lives. But it was also a good time, when family and town were the domain of our existence. My father of Scottish, and mother of German extraction, migrated with their…

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I was born in Pusan, Korea, on October 3, 1904. My father Brede Pedersen, was a Norwegian marine engineer who left home as a young man and shipped out as an engineer on a steam freighter to the Far East. He eventually arrived in Korea and joined the fleet of the Korean customs service, which…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation form the Swedish text Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A prerequisite for all life processes is that molecules recognize each other and bind to each other in order to be able to react. The molecules are said to form complexes. The proteins in…

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14 October 1987 has decided to award the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Donald J. Cram, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, to Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, and College de France, Paris, France, and to former research chemist Charles J. Pedersen, Du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware, USA for their development…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1987 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 Joseph Brodsky This year’s Nobel Prize winner in Literature was born in Leningrad and lives in New York. Aged only 47 he is one of the youngest ever to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. A sign of…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, of the , December 10, 1987 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A characteristic feature of the Nobel prizewinner Joseph Brodsky is a magnificent joy of discovery. He sees connections, words them pithily, sees new connections. Not seldom they are contradictory…