Nobel Prize

Swedish Nobel-föredrag hållet i Kristiania den 19 juni 1922 Nobelföredrag I grundbestämmelserna för det Nobelska testamentet angives i fråga om fredspriset, att, det bör tillfalla män eller kvinnor, som sökt verka »för folkens förbrödring, för avskaffande eller minskning av de stående härarna och för åstadkommande av fredskongresser». “Folkens förbrödring” är här satt främst. Det anger…

English Nobel Lecture, June 19, 1922 (Translation) Fraternity among Nations In the fundamental clauses of the Nobel testament concerning the Peace Prize, it is stated that it should be awarded to the men or women who have sought to work for “fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the…

English Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1921 (Translation) Internationalism I In accordance with the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, every prizewinner is supposed to deliver a public lecture on the work which earned him the prize. It has seemed natural for me, when fulfilling this obligation today, to try to give an account of the theoretical…

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Henri La Fontaine did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Alfred Fried did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Tobias Asser did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838-July 29, 1913) was born in Amsterdam into a family with a tradition in the field of law, both his father and his grandfather having been well-established lawyers and his uncle having served as the Dutch minister of justice. A brilliant student, young Asser won a competition in 1857…