Chemistry

Banquet speech

Elias J. Corey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, There is a children’s poem by Julia Carney entitled “Little Things,” one verse of which reads: Little drops of water, little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land Thus the little minutes,…

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Banquet speech

Sidney Altman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My colleague, Thomas Cech, and I offer our most profound thanks to you for the honour you bestow on us today. Our colleagues, present and past, at Yale University, at the University of Colorado and elsewhere, are…

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Banquet speech

Jean-Marie Lehn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 (in French) Majestés, Altesses Royales, Chers Collègues et Amis, Mesdames et Messieurs, J’ai le grand honneur et le réel plaisir de dire, au nom de Charles Pedersen, de Donald Cram et en mon propre nom, notre profonde gratitude et notre émotion d’être ici, avec vous,…

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