Nobel Prize

K. Alex Müller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen Despite the announcement in my mother language, you just heard, I choose to speak in English, with a heavy Swiss accent as a newspaper man had it. Georg Bednorz and I work at the IBM Laboratory…

Leon M. Lederman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1988 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My colleagues Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger join me to express our feelings of pleasure and gratitude for the decision to award us the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physics, thus making us experts on the Brazilian…

Richard E. Taylor’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall and I wish to express our heartfelt thanks for the distinguished honor bestowed on us today. We are fortunate that we and our co-workers were among the first to use the large…

Joseph H. Taylor Jr.’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1993 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We have heard earlier today that scientific discoveries come at unpredictable times. Just as a person cannot say “I shall write poetry,” another cannot say “I shall make a scientific discovery.” Russell Hulse and I…

Martin L. Perl’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my companion in the world of lepton physics, Frederick Reines, and myself I want to express our gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for being honored for…

David M. Lee’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1996 Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been a great pleasure to have participated in an exciting journey of discovery with my friends and colleagues, Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson. I speak on behalf of the three of us in expressing our…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been elected by my co-winners in Physics to propose to you a version of Mark Twain’s famous toast to babies, for babies are the first contact most of us have with real physics and thus an important component of the Nobel Prize…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. For more than 100 years the Nobel Foundation has handed out these generous prizes and hosted these magnificent banquets. All of this made possible due to the generosity and vision of Alfred Nobel. But can it continue? To continue having such splendid parties two…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honor for George Smoot and me to accept the Prize in Physics this year for our work on the very first light, the incredibly intense heat radiation that filled the universe when it was young, and…

Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour for Peter Grünberg and me to accept the Nobel Prize. We express our gratitude to the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. We want also to acknowledge the outstanding contributions to our work of many brilliant coworkers.…