Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Nobel Committee Chairman Francis Sejersted delivering his speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, 10 December 1992. Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992 to Rigoberta Menchú Tum. It is a particular pleasure…
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Presentation Speech by John Sanness, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1981 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. I take it that no one regards the award for the prize as exclusively…
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Presentation Speech by , member of the , on December 10, 1934 In the work for international peace, as in other fields of human endeavor, there must be a division of labor; among others, a division of labor between technicians and educators. Mr. is one of the technicians, a statesman devising plans for peace and…
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Presentation Speech by Gunnar Knudsen, Presiding, on December 10, 1906 As the meets today, the tenth of December, perhaps for the last time in this hall, to announce to the Norwegian Parliament its decision concerning the award of the Peace Prize, it is appropriate to recall that the Norwegian Parliament was one of the first…
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Presentation Speech by Professor Kerstin Hall of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We have all been small infants who have grown tall. It is growth hormone, released from the pituitary gland, which regulates growth after birth. Lack of this hormone during infancy results in growth…
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Presentation Speech by Professor Viktor Mutt of the December 10, 1985 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on August 26, 1816, the chemist Michel Chevreul suggested that a substance, with fat-like properties, discovered some decades previously in gallstones…
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English Presentation Speech by Professor Christer Betsholtz, Member of the , 10 December 2007. Professor Christer Betsholtz delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards discoveries…
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Presentation Speech by Professor A. Petterson, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1920 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1919 to the Director of the Pasteur Institute,…
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Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The heart is the sun of the microcosm formed by the human body, as stated already by William Harvey in his monumental treatise on the circulation of the blood. Its…
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Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Johansson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1920 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As the first application of a quantitative approach to the field of Physiology, one quotes the calculation on which Harvey based his theory of the…
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