Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 Inhibition as a Coordinative Factor That a muscle on irritation of its nerve contracts had already long been familiar to physiology when the 19th century found a nerve which when irritated prevented its muscle from contracting. This observation seemed for a time too strange to be believed. Its truth did…

Read the introduction by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Programme of Texts English © Tomas Tranströmer, Albert Bonniers Förlag. © Tomas Tranströmer, Bloodaxe Books Ltd. Publication in periodicals or books requires the consent of the author and the publisher, Albert Bonniers Förlag, and for the English translation, Bloodaxe Books…

Yasser Arafat delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Translation from the Arabic text by D. Karara Your Majesty King Harald, Your Majesty Queen Sonja, Professor Sejersted – Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, A quote from the Holy Koran, “Then if they should…

Shimon Peres delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Your Majesties, Members of the Nobel Committee, Prime Minister Brundtland, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Chairman Arafat, Members of the Norwegian Government, Distinguished Guests, I thank the Nobel Prize Committee for its decision to name me among the laureates of the Peace…

Yitzhak Rabin delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Your Majesty the King, Your Royal Highness, Esteemed Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Honorable Prime Minister, Madame Gro Harlem Brundtland, Ministers, Members of the Parliament and Ambassadors, Fellow Laureates, Distinguished Guests, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, At an age when most…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945 Penicillin Pdf 119 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945 Penicillin Pdf 336 kB

Nobel Lecture, March 20, 1946 The Chemical Structure of the Penicillins Pdf 279 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1961 The Electron-Scattering Method and Its Application to the Structure of Nuclei and Nucleons Pdf 1.42 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1911* Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry Some 15 years ago the radiation of uranium was discovered by Henri Becquerel, and two years later the study of this phenomenon was extended to other substances, first by me, and then by Pierre Curie and myself. This study rapidly led us to…