1974
Albert Claude – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1974 The Coming Age of the Cell Inventory of living mechanisms by cell fractionation, biochemistry and electron microscopy, and a view of the impact of the findings on our status and thinking. Fifty years of cell research can hardly be summarized in the twenty to thirty minutes of a lecture; to…
moreGunnar Myrdal – Prize Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, March 17, 1975 The Equality Issue in World Development My first impulse, when brooding over what topic I should choose for this lecture, was that I should turn toward some specific problem, selected from the field where I am at present working. But then I felt that…
moreFriedrich August von Hayek – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Friedrich August von Hayek’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Now that the Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science has been created, one can only be profoundly grateful for having been selected as one of its joint recipients, and the economists certainly have every reason…
moreFriedrich August von Hayek – Prize Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1974 The Pretence of Knowledge The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists have to face today, have made the choice of its topic almost inevitable. On the one hand the still recent establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize…
morePaul J. Flory – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Paul J. Flory’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Acknowledgment of the privilege of receiving the Nobel Prize in words commensurate with the distinction it conveys overtaxes the resources of language. It must suffice to say that I am profoundly grateful to the Royal Swedish…
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