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Jean-Marie Lehn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 (in French) Majestés, Altesses Royales, Chers Collègues et Amis, Mesdames et Messieurs, J’ai le grand honneur et le réel plaisir de dire, au nom de Charles Pedersen, de Donald Cram et en mon propre nom, notre profonde gratitude et notre émotion d’être ici, avec vous,…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1987 The Design of Molecular Hosts, Guests, and Their Complexes Pdf 800 kB

Nobel lecture, December 8, 1987 Supramolecular Chemistry – Scope and Perspectives Molecules – Supermolecules – Molecular Devices Pdf 839 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1987 The Discovery of Crown Ethers Pdf 523 kB

Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn Born on September 30, 1939 at Rosheim, Bas-Rhin   Addresses ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur 8 allée Gaspard Monge, BP 70028, F-67083 Strasbourg cedex Tel. +33-390-245-145 Fax +33-390-245-140 E-mail lehn@isis.u-strasbg.fr Collège de France 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, F-75005 Paris Tel. +33-144-271-360 Fax +33-144-271-356   Director Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoléculaire ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur,…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

Joseph Brodsky’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen, I was born and grew up on the other shore of the Baltic, practically on its opposite grey rustling page. Sometimes on clear days, especially in autumn, standing on a beach somewhere in Kellomaki, a friend would poke his finger…

English Nobel Lecture December 8, 1987 (Translation) I For someone rather private, for someone who all his life has preferred his private condition to any role of social significance, and who went in this preference rather far – far from his motherland to say the least, for it is better to be a total failure…

Russian Nobel Lecture December 8, 1987 *