Sir Frederick Hopkins’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nobel Laureates are greatly privileged. Their privileges, I venture to say, begin with the invitation to Stockholm, and with the circumstances which meet them there. Stockholm takes care that a fitting stage is provided…

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Nobel Lecture Antineuritic Vitamin and Beriberi Beriberi is a disease prevalent, epidemically, in tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Asia, where rice is the staple food of the natives; it is found elsewhere among sago-eating peoples (Molucca Islands), as well as in South America, in places where rice or cassava meal is the staple diet,…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1929 The Earlier History of Vitamin Research When the present century began, animal nutrition was being viewed too exclusively from the standpoint of energy requirements. The fundamental pioneer work of Rubner and its later extension to human subjects in the remarkable enterprise of Atwater, Benedict, Rosa, and others in the United…

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Arthur Harden’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My first duty, and it is a most congenial one, is to express on behalf of Professor von Euler, whose name is as well known throughout the Scientific World as here in Stockholm – his adopted home…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1929 The Function of Phosphate in Alcoholic Fermentation Pdf 60 kB

Nobel Lecture, May 23, 1930 Fermentation of Sugars and Fermentative Enzymes Pdf 61 kB

English Thomas Mann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1929 (Translation) Now my turn to thank you has come, and I need not tell you how much I have looked forward to it. But alas, at this moment of truth I am afraid that words will fail my feelings, as…