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Anthony J. Leggett – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As a Nobel Laureate one gets asked many questions, some of them very peculiar indeed, but one frequent question that is quite reasonable is: What advice would you give to a student hoping to embark on a career in theoretical physics? Now I should…
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Vitaly L. Ginzburg – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript Professor Ginzburg, welcome to the Nobel e-Museum. We are very happy to have you here. You have a very long career in science behind you, I would say, so my first question would be what is your most exciting memory of life in science? Vitaly Ginzburg: It is difficult to…
moreGeorge Bernard Shaw – Documentary
Documentary
Credit: ITN Archive/Reuters * The event is described in a book by Abraham Pais, Einstein Lived Here (page 181), published by Clarendon Press in 1994.
moreDerek Walcott – Poetry
Poetry
Two poems by Derek Walcott Sea Grapes That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband’s longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa’s name in every gull’s outcry. This…
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