Presentation Speech by Henrik Schück, President of the Nobel Foundation, on December 10, 1927 The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize of 1926 to the Italian author Grazia Deledda. Grazia Deledda was born in Nuoro, a small town in Sardinia. There she spent her childhood and her youth, and from the natural surroundings and…

  Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1910 Many famous writers from several countries have been proposed for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy has awarded it to a writer whose nomination has been supported by more than sixty German experts on art, literature,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ivar Waller, member of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Elementary particle physics which is now so vigorous was still in its infancy when Murray Gell-Mann in 1953 published the first of the papers which have been honoured with this years Nobel Prize in physics. The physicists were,…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hulthén, member of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. For the man in the street I suppose the compass needle is the most familiar magnetic instrument. But when and where the compass was first used is a much-debated question, where we grope between Chinese records from the year…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has awarded Alfred Nobel’s Peace Prize for 1957 to the Canadian Lester Bowles Pearson. As we all know, Lester Pearson was Canada’s foreign minister from 1948 to 1957 when, as a result of the election, the Liberal government resigned. The winner of the Peace Prize…

Presentation Speech by Professor E.G. Rudberg, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In these days 250 years have elapsed since Benjamin Franklin was born: the printer and educator, the statesman, the pioneer in the field of electricity. It was Franklin who strung a high-tension line from a thundercloud to a…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Chemistry has its origins far back in the cultural development of mankind. The search for the laws governing the structure of and changes in the material universe has followed many, now and then rather curious, paths. The…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1936 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Chemists have for long been expressing their conceptions of the construction of compounds of substances by stereochemical formulae which are meant to represent the reciprocal position of the…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the , Norwegian Storting The last time the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an individual was in 1964. The prize for that year was given to . Today he is no longer alive. On April 4 of this year, so bitter a year for human rights,…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Frequently when the storm clouds gather – perhaps for that very reason – the world is made aware of the forces of good, rallying to meet the threatened danger. The dark years of this century in Europe started in 1914 and are still with us. Throughout this…