1959

Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain Nominated on 33 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 12 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Emilio Segrè – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 Peace and the Arms Race Yesterday I tried to express my gratitude for the honor which I have received. Why has it come? [Mr. Gunnar Jahn, in his , gave part of the answer.] I have been of all men the most fortunate of all. I was my father’s son.…

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Banquet speech

English Salvatore Quasimodo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 (Translation) I have always thought of Sweden as a country adopted by the men who received the Nobel Prize, that unique and brilliant distinction in contemporary civilization. No other nation, in fact, has succeeded in proposing, much less…

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Banquet speech

Italian Salvatore Quasimodo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Ho sempre pensato al regno di Svezia come a una patria adottiva degli uomini che ricevono il Premio Nobel, cioè un riconoscimento unico e revente nella civiltà contemporanea. Nessun’altra nazione, infatti, è riuscita a proporre o a concretare…

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