1969

Banquet speech

Odd Hassel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 (in Norwegian) Deres Majestet, Kongelige Höyheter, Mine Damer og Herrer, Jeg er blitt overlatt av min med-kjemiker, doctor Barton, å si noen takkens ord i dag i anledning av den storartede mottakelse vi har hatt i Stockholm. Og til og med å tale…

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Nobel Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 12, 1969 The Use of Models: Experience and Prospects 1. Essence of models In this lecture I propose to discuss the experience we have had with the method of model building as a contribution to economic science and the prospects for its further application. First of all…

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Biographical

Max Delbrück was born on September 4th, 1906, in Berlin, Germany, the youngest of seven children. His father, Hans Delbrück, Professor of History at the University of Berlin, was for many years editor and political columnist of the Preussische Jahrbücher. His mother was a granddaughter of the chemist, Justus von Liebig. Max Delbrück grew up…

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Press release

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1969 jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria for their discoveries concerning “the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”. Summary Around 1940 Delbrück, Hershey and Luria became interested in bacteriophage, a type of virus that…

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