1985
Nobel Banquet Menu 1985
Timbale d´écrevisses, Sauce basilic Petit pain Nobel Selle d´agneau rôtie garnie de fenouil Haricots verts et tomates grillées Sauce cognac à la crème, Pommes allumettes Parfait Glace Nobel Petits fours VINS Moët et Chandon, Brut Impérial Médoc Baron Philippe 1979, Sélection Nobel Eau minérale Ramlösa Café BUFFET The Famous Grouse Queen Anne Gordon´s Dry Gin…
moreInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – History
History
The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a federation of national groups dedicated to mobilizing the influence of the medical profession against the threat of nuclear weapons. Currently, there are IPPNW affiliated groups in 40 nations with several groups in the process of formation, representing a total of more than 145,000…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech delivered by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985, Oslo, December 10, 1985. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize gives us once again an opportunity to reconsider a well…
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Press release
has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1985 to the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. It is the committee’s opinion that this organisation has performed a considerable service to mankind by spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Viktor Mutt of the December 10, 1985 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on August 26, 1816, the chemist Michel Chevreul suggested that a substance, with fat-like properties, discovered some decades previously in gallstones…
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