1984

Nobel Lecture

Czech Pøedná¹ka k udìlení Nobelovy ceny. V prosinci 1984. O patetickém a lyrickém stavu ducha Často se setkávám, především u cizinců, s otázkou, čím je možno vysvětlit velkou oblibu poezie v mé zemi, proč je u nás nejen zájem o básně, ale dokonce potřeba poezie, a tím snad i schopnost ji vnímat, znatelně větší než…

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Nobel Lecture

English Nobel Lecture, December 1984 (Translation) On the Pathetic and Lyrical State of Mind I am often asked, particularly by foreigners, how one can explain the great love of poetry in my country: why there exists among us not only an interest in poems but even a need for poetry. Perhaps that means my countrymen…

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Poetry

Autobiography Sometimes when she would talk about herself my mother would say: My life was sad and quiet, I always walked on tip-toe. But if I got a little angry and stamped my foot the cups, which had been my mother’s, would tinkle on the dresser and make me laugh. At the moment of my…

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4 photos   To cite this pageMLA style: “Photo gallery – The Nobel Banquet 1984”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Biographical

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher. At the end of the World War II most of the province of Gorizia was overtaken by Yugoslavia and my family fled to…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Professor Carlo Rubbia and Dr. Simon van der Meer. According to the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences the prize is given…

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