Chemistry

Banquet speech

Rudolph A. Marcus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I deeply appreciate the great honor that Your Majesties and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences are bestowing on me today. I believe that it is the entire field of electron transfer, which reaches into many…

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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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