In 1961, Christian Anfinsen proved that the sequence of amino acids, in itself, determines the way the chain folds itself and that no additional genetic information is required in this process.

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1972 The Chemical Structures of Pancreatic Ribonuclease and Deoxyribonuclease Pdf 234 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1972 The Chemical Structures of Pancreatic Ribonuclease and Deoxyribonuclease Pdf 234 kB

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 12, 1972 General Economic Equilibrium: Purpose, Analytic Techniques, Collective Choice Pdf 480 kB

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I was born in the city of New York on August 23, 1921. My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in…

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English Excerpt from The Clown I It was dark by the time I reached Bonn, and I forced myself not to succumb to the series of mechanical actions which had taken hold of me in five years of traveling back and forth: down the station steps, up the station steps, put down my suitcase, take…

English Nobel Lecture on 2 May, 1973 (Translation) An Essay on the Reason of Poetry It is said by those who ought to know – and by others, who also ought to know, it is disputed – that in matters which to all appearances are rational, calculable and achieved by the combined efforts of architects,…

Heinrich Böll’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1972 (in German) Herr Ministerpräsident, meine Damen und Herren, anlässlich eines Besuchs in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat Seine Majestät der König von Schweden einen gelehrten Blick in die Schichten der Vergänglichkeit getan, aus der wir kommen und auf der wir wohnen. Vielleicht hat der…