1929

Banquet speech

Louis de Broglie’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 (in French) Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs. Je veux avant tout adresser mes remerciements les plus sincères et les plus émus à l’Académie des sciences de Suède et à la Suède toute entière pour le très grand honneur que l’on m’a fait en…

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Consommé Westmoreland Filets de sole au champagne Caneton froid à la voisin Salade de saison Fonds d´artichauts à la Royal Bombe glacée aux noisettes Petits fours VINS Madeira Fine Clos Fourtet, 1922 Niersteiner Weissenberg, 1926 J. Bollinger, Dry Extra Imperial Ruby Pick a year!

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, member of the , on December 10, 1930 It might appear that this year’s two Peace Prize winners are widely separated, not only in the geographical sense by the ocean which separates their two countries, but also in the area of their activities and in the nature of their…

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Biographical

The life of Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856-December 21, 1937), a farm boy who rose to international preeminence as the co-author of a treaty to outlaw war, is a uniquely American story. Frank Kellogg was born in Potsdam, N.Y., but the Kellogg family, becoming part of the westward movement which gripped the country at…

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