Chemistry
Ilya Prigogine – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Ilya Prigogine’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is now a little more than eighty years ago that Alfred Nobel decided to create the Nobel Foundation responsible for the attribution of the Nobel Prizes. These eighty years have seen important and sometimes tragic events…
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Ilya Prigogine – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
William Lipscomb – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
William Lipscomb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The award this year of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for research in pure inorganic chemistry is an important event. It is a reminder that we know even now considerably less about most of the chemical elements…
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Nobel Prize lecture
Vladimir Prelog – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
John Cornforth – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
John Cornforth’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us. Our backgrounds, and the…
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Nobel Prize lecture
Paul J. Flory – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Paul J. Flory’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Acknowledgment of the privilege of receiving the Nobel Prize in words commensurate with the distinction it conveys overtaxes the resources of language. It must suffice to say that I am profoundly grateful to the Royal Swedish…
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