2015
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Professor Claes Gustafsson, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2015. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, A fertilised egg cell contains all the information needed to create a human being, and this information is stored in our genetic material, our…
morePress release
Press release
English 2015-10-05 has today decided to award the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to Tu Youyou for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria…
moreThe Nobel Banquet 2015
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, 10 December A toast to the King of Sweden Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the Nobel Foundation, offers a toast to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. A Toast for Alfred Nobel King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden raises a toast to Alfred Nobel, the great donor.…
moreSvetlana Alexievich – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Introductory speech by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich On the Battle Lost English 7 December, 2015 I do not stand alone at this podium … There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood.…
moreTomas Lindahl – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Ers Majestäter, Ers Kungliga högheter, Excellenser, Kära pristagare, Mina damer och herrar, Jag tackar för äran att ha tilldelats Nobelpriset i kemi tillsammans med professor Modrich och professor Sancar. The topic of my brief comments will be the crucial importance of our early mentors and teachers. I had the privilege of attending…
moreSvetlana Alexievich – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
English Svetlana Alexievich’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2015 (translation into English). I would like to thank the Swedish Academy for this distinguished award, which I dare not claim as mine alone. Rather, I see it as a tribute to the many generations who not so very long ago lived…
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