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Seamus Heaney delivering his Nobel Prize lecture at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995. Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1995 Crediting Poetry When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the…

Interview transcript Professor Nüsslein-Volhard, it’s so nice to have you here in Lindau. What you said today, that scientists have to be humble, could you explain that a little bit more? Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: Yes. The importance of genes was of course recognised very early on and I think the term gene was…

Interview transcript Thank you, Professor, for coming to this interview today. Sherwood Rowland: I’m pleased to be here. When I was briefed about you and your work from one of the people at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, they said there are a number of people who have done great jobs who…

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English 11 October 1995 has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany (Dutch citizen), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA and Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,…

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Good Schools, Books, a Love of Mechanics, and You Must Earn a LivingAbout 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. My parents grew up in poor areas of New York…