Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Organic synthesis – the preparation of complicated organic compounds, using simple and cheap starting materials – is one of the prerequisites of our civilization, the chemical age in which we live. As late as…

  Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Since the start of the Nobel Foundation the professorial staff of the Karolinska Institute has chosen the prizewinners in Physiology or Medicine. This year the Karolinska Institute has been reorganized…

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Presentation Speech delivered by Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978, Oslo, December 10, 1978. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: has awarded the Peace Prize for 1978 to Anwar al-Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem…

The following account of Kuhn’s work has been made. When Richard Kuhn in 1926 took over the Chair for General and Analytical Chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich he set in motion a comprehensive series of investigations into the so-called conjugated double bonds which make up the essential arrangement of the atoms of…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the The environment in which a child is brought up almost invariably leaves a distinct and indelible mark on its character. This appears to have been the case with Emily Greene Balch. Born in Boston in 1867, she comes from an old New England family and grew up…

Professor Jörgen Weibull delivering the Presentation Speech for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 at the Stockholm Concert Hall. English Presentation Speech by Professor Jörgen Weibull, Member of the , Chairman of the Economics Prize Committee, 10 December 2007. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates,…

Professor Jörgen Weibull presenterar Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne 2007 i Stockholms Konserthus. Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Jörgen Weibull, ledamot av , ordförande i Ekonomipriskommittén, 10 December 2007. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Årets ekonomipris handlar om design. Låt mig förklara. Filosofer…

Professor Jörgen Weibull delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel at the Stockholm Concert Hall. English Presentation Speech by Professor Jörgen Weibull, Member, the Chairman of the Economics Prize Committee, December 10, 2005. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Laureates, Ladies…

Professor Jörgen Weibull presenterar Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Jörgen Weibull, ledamot av ordförande i Ekonomipriskommittén, den 10 december 2005. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Krig och andra konflikter har sedan urminnes tider plågat…