Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1960 Radiocarbon Dating Pdf 356 kB

Jaroslav Heyrovsky’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Having obtained the highest scientific distinction to be laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1959, I have the pleasant duty to thank most cordially to the Nobel Foundation and to the Royal…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 The Trends of Polarography Pdf 313 kB

Frederick Sanger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I had the good fortune about ten years ago to visit this country and to work for a few months in the Laboratory of Professor at Uppsala, I did not succeed in…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1958 The Chemistry of Insulin Pdf 105 kB

Lord Todd’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I find it hard to express adequately my appreciation of the honour which has been done me – for surely the bestowal of a Nobel Prize is the greatest honour a man of…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 Synthesis in the Study of Nucleotides Pdf 100 kB

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood’s Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1956 May it please Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Students of Stockholm. Replying to this toast is a great responsibility for two reasons. On the one hand I have to speak for colleagues in a variety of different subjects and from…

Nikolay Semenov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1956 (Translation) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames et messieurs, Qu’il me soit permis d’exprimer ici, au nom de Sir Hinshelwood et personnellement, la profonde et cordiale reconnaissance qu’éveillent en nous le grand honneur d’avoir été désignés pour le prix de chimie de 1956,…