Chemistry

Interview

Interview transcript Professor Hartmut Michel, welcome. Hartmut Michel: Thank you. You’ll have a short talk with us here today. It’s a few years now since you received the prize, in chemistry. What is it today that you have use for in what you discovered at that time or what are you using,…

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Banquet speech

Hartmut Michel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1988 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Seven weeks have passed since it has been announced that Hans Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and myself have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For me the greatest experience was to see how many, many people were…

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Banquet speech

Geoffrey Wilkinson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1973 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My Fellow Students, It is an old English convention that experienced speakers always begin by saying “unaccustomed as I am to public speaking”. In my case it is really true and when I was given the honour…

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Banquet speech

Ernst Otto Fischer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1973 (in German) Eure Majestät, Königliche Hoheiten, Meine Damen und Herren, Eine festliche, frohgestimmte, grosse Tafelrunde schenkt uns Preisträgern aus so verschiedener Herren Länder an diesem Ehrentag die Freude ihrer Anwesenheit. Dafür sei der Nobel-Stiftung und Ihnen allen herzlich gedankt. Lassen wir in dieser Stunde…

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