2015

Award ceremony speech

English Presentation Speech by Professor Tore Ellingsen, Foreign Member of the , Chairman of the Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 10 december 2015. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Immanuel Nobel was born on March 24, 1801. We know very little about…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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Nobel Prize 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.…

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