Swedish Presentationstal av författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2007. Författaren Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2007 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Doris Lessing hör både till litteraturhistorien och till den levande litteraturen. Hon har bidragit…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1928 In her first novels or novellas, all of them remarkable works, Sigrid Undset painted the present-day world of young women in the environs of Christiania. It was a restless generation, prompt to make the gravest decisions as soon…

  Presentation Speech by the former Rector of the National Archives Dr. C.T. Odhner, President of , on December 10, 1901 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff, Professor in the University of Berlin, for his pioneering work on chemical dynamics…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences this year has decided to award with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry a scientific feat which is less a direct improvement of our material living standards, but…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1945 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In our northern latitudes we have to feed our most useful domestic animals in winter with preserved fodder, generally hay. But for a long time it has been common…

  Presentation Speech by Doctor Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the . Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When , compatriot of this year’s Nobel prizewinner in literature, came here in 1963 to receive the same award, he presented at the airport a bunch of hyacinths each to the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania and grew up in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt in earnest.…

The following account of Butenandt’s work has been made. As recently as twelve years ago, very little was known about the nature of the sex hormones. As regards the oestrogenic, or follicle, hormone it was established that extracts from certain organs, e.g. the ovaries and placenta, bring about the characteristic oestrus phenomena in castrated female…

Presentation Speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Eyvind Johnson’s education – that is, the education provided by society at that time – ended when he was thirteen and was imparted to him at a little village school north of the Arctic…

Presentation Speech by Hans Hildebrand, Acting Secretary of the , on December 10, 1912 There is an old saying that times change and men change with them. If we look back on past ages we discover its truth. We, who are no longer young, have had the opportunity in our bustling lives to experience the…