Val Fitch’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Earlier today Professor Ekspong described our research which showed a basic lack of symmetry between matter and antimatter, world and antiworld. He observed that, if from some remote stellar region an alien space craft comes to visit,…

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I was born on September 29, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, while my father, James Farley Cronin, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He was a student of classical languages. My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. After a brief stay at a small school…

Interpreter’s note This is a live recording of members of AIIC, the International Association of Conference Interpreters, interpreting simultaneously at the Nobel Centennial Symposia. It is not intended to be a literal or definitive translation of the proceedings.

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English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1980 Members of the Nobel Committee, Brothers and Sisters, I come before you, having just received the Nobel Peace Prize from so prestigious an academy, in order to share a reflection about my continent and our struggle. I would like to give thanks to everyone for the invitation to speak…

Spanish Discurso en Oslo al recibir el Premio Nobel de la paz Majestad, Altezas, Señoras y Señores Con humildad estoy ante Ustedes para recibir la alta distinción que el Comité Nobel y el Parlamento otorgan a quienes han consagrado su vida en favor de la PAZ, de la promoción de la JUSTICIA y la solidaridad…

Spanish Conferencia Nobel el día 11 de diciembre de 1980 Sres miembros del Comité Nobel, Hermanos y Hermanas, Vengo aquí, luego de haberme sido otorgado por tan prestigiosa academia el Premio Nobel de la Paz, para compartir una reflexión sobre mi continente y nuestra lucha. Quisiera antes que todo agradecer la invitación que me fuera…

English 8 December 1980 I My presence here, on this tribune, should be an argument for all those who praise life’s God-given, marvelously complex, unpredictability. In my school years I used to read volumes of a series then published in Poland – “The Library of the Nobel Laureates”. I remember the shape of the letters…