Swedish Presentationstal av professor Horace Engdahl, ledamot av , ledamot i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2016. Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Excellenser, Mina Damer och Herrar. Hur sker de stora omvälvningarna i litteraturens värld? Ofta genom att någon tar…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Horace Engdahl, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2016. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, What…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Nils-Göran Larsson, ledamot av , ledamot av Medicinska Nobelkommittén, 10 december 2016 Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Vi har idag samlats för utdelningen av årets Nobelpris i konserthuset,…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Olof Ramström, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 december 2016. Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Den mänskliga utvecklingen är starkt förknippad med maskiner. Dessa har hjälpt oss…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Olof Ramström, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2016. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen,…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Thors Hans Hansson, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 december 2016 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Pristagare, Kära kollegor i det internationella vetenskapssamhället, Mina Damer och Herrar Fysik är en…

  Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, President of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1928 In his L’Évolution créatrice (1907) [Creative Evolution], Henri Bergson has declared that the most lasting and most fruitful of all philosophical systems are those which originate in intuition. If one believes these words, it appears immediately with…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Trying to capture Derek Walcott’s oceanic work in a formula would be an absurd enterprise – had he not himself come to our assistance, shrewdly hiding a few key formulations in his…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Hans Jörnvall of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded for discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation. What does that mean and how does phosphorylation work? Let us…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Eberson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is being awarded to Professor Rudolph Marcus for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. To understand the background of his achievements,…