Chemistry

Banquet speech

Peter Mitchell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1978 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Emile Zola described a work of art as a corner of nature seen through a temperament. The philosopher Karl Popper, the economist , and the art historian K. H. Gombrich have shown that the creative process in…

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Banquet speech

Ilya Prigogine’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is now a little more than eighty years ago that Alfred Nobel decided to create the Nobel Foundation responsible for the attribution of the Nobel Prizes. These eighty years have seen important and sometimes tragic events…

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Banquet speech

William Lipscomb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The award this year of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for research in pure inorganic chemistry is an important event. It is a reminder that we know even now considerably less about most of the chemical elements…

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