I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. The most influential teachers in my undergraduate years…

Interview, September 2013 Interview with 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 13 September 2013. Mairead Corrigan on what made her believe she could make an impact. Mairead Corrigan on what inspires her. Mairead Corrigan gives advice to a young person who wants to…

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Transcript from an interview with Mairead Corrigan Maguire on 1 September 2006, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Mrs Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, thank you for being with us here today. It’s 30 years since you really really got…

My scientific interests started before my school years, when as a boy of five years I wandered through gardens, fields and woods with my mother’s entomologist-sister, Tante Irene, as we overturned rocks and sought to find how many different plant and animal species of previously hidden life lay before us. We cut open galls to…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET 14 October 1976 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1976 jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek for their discoveries concerning “new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”. The main interest regarding epidemic diseases has concerned different acute diseases at which symptoms…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1977 I stand here today with a sense of humility, a sense of history, and a sense of honor. I also stand here in the name of courage to give name to a challenge. I feel humble in officially receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, because so many people…

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14 October 1976 THIS YEAR’s ECONOMICS PRIZE TO AN AMERICAN has decided to award the 1976 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professor Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of…