Chemistry

Banquet speech

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…

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Banquet speech

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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Banquet speech

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…

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