Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “reverence for life” and tireless humanitarian work. Albert Schweitzer Full name: Albert SchweitzerBorn: 14 January 1875, Kaysersberg, Germany (now France)Died: 4 September 1965, Lambaréné, GabonDate awarded: 30 October 1953 Minister turned doctor in Africa A theologian, Albert Schweitzer changed his course after reading of the…

Albert Schweitzer, his wife Hélène Bresslau and Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in the auditorium of Oslo University, 4 November 1954. Albert Schweitzer before the departure to his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, 1923.

Selman A. Waksman at work in the laboratory, 1953. Selman Waksman and two female associates testing Streptomycin, a bacterial antibiotic produced by the soil actinomycete – chiefly used in the treatment of tuberculosis, at New Jersey Agriculture Experimental Station at Rutgers University.

The protons and neutrons that make up every atomic nucleus behave not like the tiny ping-pong-ball like structures taught in school, but more like gyroscopes that spin about their axes in random directions, generating their own minute magnetic fields. Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell demonstrated how manipulating and analysing the movement of these subatomic spinning…

English Nobel Lecture, November 4, 1954 The Problem of Peace For the subject of my lecture, a redoubtable honor imposed by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, I have chosen the problem of peace as it is today. In so doing, I believe that I have acted in the spirit of the founder of…

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E. M. Purcell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1952 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and gentlemen, The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man’s work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952 The Principle of Nuclear Induction Pdf 196 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952 Research in Nuclear Magnetism Pdf 114 kB

Felix Bloch’s Address to the University Students on the Evening of December 10, 1952 It is my great privilege to address the academic youth on behalf of the Nobel Prize winners of the year 1952. First of all, let me thank you for your felicitations, for your cheers, and for your beautiful songs. In talking…