Chemistry

Banquet speech

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1964 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I must first of all with all my heart thank you for the very great honour that you have done me and the great happiness that you have conferred upon me and…

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Banquet speech

Karl Ziegler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 (in German) Majestäten, Königliche Hoheiten, Hochansehnliche Versammlung, Das Testament Alfred Nobels bestimmt mit Bezug auf den Preis, der Herrn Natta und mir zuerkannt worden ist, daß er für diejenige Erfindung oder Verbesserung auf chemischem Gebiet vergeben werden solle, die im verflossenen Jahre der…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1963 From the Stereospecific Polymerization to the Asymmetric Autocatalytic Synthesis of Macromolecules Pdf 458 kB

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Banquet speech

Max F. Perutz’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I was deeply moved by the Royal Swedish Academy’s decision to elevate me, a man of modest gifts, to the Olympian heights of a Nobel Laureate. On hearing the news, a friend who…

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