Michael S. Brown’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Joe and I were trained as physicians and we still perform clinical duties. Yet, we realized that the understanding of a complex problem such as atherosclerosis requires the tools of basic science. We are fortunate to…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1985 by Yevgeny Chazov, USSR Cardiological Institute, co-founder of IPPNW Tragedy and Triumph of Reason Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, Physicist Leo Szilard, one of those who persuaded Albert Einstein to appeal to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to go on with the development of A-bomb, in his last years wrote science…

Acceptance by Yevgeny Chazov, USSR Cardiological Institute, co-founder of IPPNW on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1985 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Colleagues, I am convinced that today is a great and exciting day not only for the members of our international movement but also for all…

Claude Simon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 (in French) Vos Majestés, Vos Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Je n’ai pas le don de parole, et c’est d’ailleurs là une des raisons pour lesquelles j’écris, quoique encore avec beaucoup de difficultés: mon travail absorbe le plus gros de mon énergie, de sorte que l’âge…

Works in French Le Tricheur. – Paris : Sagittaire, 1945 La Corde raide. – Paris : Minuit, 1947 Gulliver. – Paris : Calmann-Levy, 1952 Le Sacre du printemps. – Paris : Calmann-Levy, 1954 Le Vent: tentative de restitution d’un retable baroque. – Paris : Minuit, 1957 L’herbe. – Paris : Minuit, 1958 La Route des…