Tsung-Dao Lee’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Juai Tien Kuo Kuo Wang, Wang Hu, Ke Wai Wang Tze, Ke Wai Rung Chu, Ke Wai Kao Pin: [Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentemen:] To be awarded the Nobel Prize is perhaps the greatest honor that can be bestowed on any…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 Weak Interactions and Nonconservation of Parity Pdf 255 kB

Interview transcript Tsung-Dao Lee, co-recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Chen Ning Yang, welcome to Stockholm. You are back here in 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that award. Looking back at your being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, do you think the public perception of…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 The Four Faces of Peace I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. I would like, at the very beginning, to pay my…

English Albert Camus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 (Translation) In receiving the distinction with which your free has so generously honoured me, my gratitude has been profound, particularly when I consider the extent to which this recompense has surpassed my personal merits. Every man, and for…

French Albert Camus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, En recevant la distinction dont votre libre Académie a bien voulu m’honorer, ma gratitude était d’autant plus profonde que je mesurais à quel point cette récompense dépassait mes mérites personnels. Tout homme…

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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…