Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize Talks: Mario Molina Released 2014-04-11 The vast majority of experts agree that climate change is taking place and that human activity has a role to play. ”The risks are unacceptable”, says Mario Molina, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995, who has chaired a new report on climate change. But the good…

English 11 October 1995 has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics with one half to Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA for the discovery of the tau lepton and with one half to Frederick Reines, University of California, Irvine, California, USA for the…

I was born in Amsterdam on December, 3, 1933, the son of Anna Gurk and Jozef Crutzen. I have one sister who still lives in Amsterdam with her family. My mother’s parents moved to the industrial Ruhr region in Germany from East Prussia towards the end of the last century. They were of mixed German…

I was born in Paterson, New Jersey on March 16, 1918, the youngest of four children. My parents, Israel and Gussie (Cohen), had met and married in New York City after emigrating to the United States from the same small town in Russia. A paternal relative in Russia, the Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines (1839-1915), was…

I was born in South Bend, Indiana on June 8, 1947, one of that large bumper crop of babies born in the United States after World War II. My family moved to Birmingham Alabama in 1953 when I was six. Although Birmingham was already a major industrial center in the South, the city still had…

Presentation Speech by Professor Lars E.O. Svensson of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Robert Lucas is the social scientist who has had the greatest influence on macroeconomic research since 1970. The main objective of macroeconomic research is to study fluctuations in total production, employment and inflation.…

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Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland, but the father’s real commitment was to cattle-dealing. There was something very congenial to Patrick Heaney about the…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 5, 1995 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 Seamus Heaney “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past” Seamus Heaney was born on a farm some distance west of Belfast in Northern Ireland 56 years ago. After studies and…