1989
Thomas R. Cech – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1989 Self-Splicing and Enzymatic Activity of an Intervening Sequence RNA from Tetrahymena Pdf 929 kB
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Sidney Altman – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Sidney Altman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My colleague, Thomas Cech, and I offer our most profound thanks to you for the honour you bestow on us today. Our colleagues, present and past, at Yale University, at the University of Colorado and elsewhere, are…
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Hans G. Dehmelt – Biographical
Biographical
My father, Georg, had studied law at the Universität Berlin for some years, and in the first World War had been an artillery officer. He was of a philosophical bend of mind and a man of independent opinions. In the depth of the depression he just managed to make a living in real estate. When…
moreHarold E. Varmus – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Harold E. Varmus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 The literature of my native tongue had its beginnings in your traditional stories, set down in Anglo-Saxon, a language descended from yours, and ancestral to mine. One of the great remnants of this early work, the epic poem Beowulf, teaches the importance of the…
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