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Roger Y. Tsien – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and I would like to thank those responsible for this great honor and to make some observations about what the Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) teaches us. We are deeply grateful that the Nobel committee and the Royal Academy of…
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Gerhard Ertl – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
The famous physicist begins his autobiography with the sentence: “Science is made by men.” Since in my own case you honour not a singular discovery, but the lifelong attempt to understand how chemical reactions at solid surfaces take place, this work involved in fact many people. When I was young, I was…
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