Physics

Banquet speech

Charles-Edouard Guillaume’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1920 (in French) Altesses, Mesdames, Messieurs, Lorsque s’approchent les cérémonies consacrées à la proclamation des Prix Nobel, c’est, disait il y a un instant l’illustre Professeur Montelius, une joie pour l’Académie, pour la science suédoise, pour la Suède tout entière, de penser que l’on…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, June 3, 1920 Structural and Spectral Changes of Chemical Atoms The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. They formed the concept, as a philosophical speculation, of the indivisible particle, the atom, as the smallest component of perceptible objects. However, they did…

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Banquet speech

Charles Glover Barkla’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, June 1, 1920 Let me first say how much I regret that the British are not more fully represented at this celebration. When the invitation came to hand Professor Sir had already entered into several important engagements which could not conveniently be cancelled, and unfortunately…

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