2006
Edmund S. Phelps – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen When I was a teenager I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion. Then, when I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it – for the challenge of its…
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Edmund S. Phelps – Diploma
Nobel diploma
Edmund S. Phelps – Prize Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Orhan Pamuk – Biographical
Biographical
English Half of my book Istanbul is about the city; the other half chronicles the first 22 years of my life. I remember my huge disillusionment when it was finished. Of all the things I had wanted to express about my life, of all the memories that I considered the most crucial, only a few…
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Roger D. Kornberg – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen I am deeply grateful for the honor bestowed on me by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is an honor I share with many collaborators. My wife Yahli has been my closest collaborator. She has borne a double burden. She is the wife…
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