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Nobel Banquet at the Golden Hall of the Stockholm City Hall on 10 December 1958.

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Frederick Sanger was born on August 13, 1918, at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, the second son of Frederick Sanger, M.D., a medical practitioner and his wife Cicely. He was educated at Bryanston School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in natural sciences in 1939. Since 1940 he has carried out…

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Filet de sole bourguignonne Chaud-froid de caneton au Porto Salade mimosa Sauce orange Parfait aux avelines VINS Château Liversan, Medoc 1953 Lanson Dry Extra Café Cognac Martell Liqueur Bols Apricot Brandy BUFFET

Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire (February 10, 1910-January 30, 1969), born in Dinant, Belgium, the first child of Georges and Berthe (Ravet) Pire, assigned his life to action in striving to achieve understanding among peoples of the world, to eliminate poverty and hopelessness in the emerging nations, to alleviate the lot of the refugees of…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has this year awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Belgian Dominican, Father Georges Pire, for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity. Father Pire’s work is known to all of us in Western…

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