English has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new…

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Norwegian har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2009 skal tildeles president Barack Obama for hans ekstraordinære innsats for å styrke internasjonalt diplomati og mellomfolkelig samarbeid. Komiteen har lagt spesiell vekt på Obamas visjon om og arbeid for en verden uten atomvåpen. Obama har som president skapt et nytt klima i internasjonal politikk. Multilateralt diplomati står…

Family BackgroundThe Kao family comes from a township called Zhangyan in the Jinshan district near Shanghai, China. As landowners, the family would have been considered wealthy. The sons of each generation would be well educated in the style of the times. My knowledge of the family’s genealogy goes back only to Grandfather. Grandfather Kao Hsieh…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. At the beginning…

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. Now that I find myself in the surprising situation of having to write my own biography, and thus to reflect on my career, I find the same…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.…

Swedish Tal av Dr Marcus Storch, Nobelstiftelsens styrelseordförande, den 10 december 2009. Dr Marcus Storch håller sitt hälsningsanförande Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, På Nobelstiftelsens vägnar ber jag att få hälsa er välkomna till årets prisutdelning, och jag vill särskilt hälsa pristagarna och deras familjer välkomna till…

English Speech by Dr Marcus Storch, Chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2009. Dr Marcus Storch delivering the opening address during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, I would…

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