1979
Herbert C. Brown – Biographical
Biographical
My parents, Charles Brovarnik and Pearl Gorinstein, were born in Zhitomir in the Ukraine and came to London in 1908 as part of the vast Jewish immigration in the early part of this century. They were married in London. In 1909 my sister, Ann, was born. I arrived on May 22, 1912. In June 1914…
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Suprêmes de turbot froid aux œufs d´ablette Sauce hollandaise Selle de veau rôtie Sauce morilles Pommes sautées Salade de haricots verts Parfait Glace Nobel Petits fours VINS G. H. Mumm, Cordon Rouge, Brut Château Trinité-Valrose, 1970 Eau minérale Ramlösa Café Baron Otard, Fine Champagne, V.S.O.P Liqueur Mandarine Napoléon BUFFET Bols Silver Top Dry Gin Long…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. The year 1979 has not been a year of peace: disputes and conflicts between nations, peoples, and ideologies have been conducted…
morePress release
Press release
has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. Thirty years ago Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city. The Roman Catholic order of which she…
moreAllan M. Cormack – Biographical
Biographical
My parents went from the north of Scotland to South Africa shortly before World War I. My mother had been a teacher and my father was an engineer with the Post Office. I was born in Johannesburg in 1924, the youngest of three children. My family moved around the country quite a lot, as did…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Torgny Greitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Neither of this year’s laureates in physiology or medicine is a medical doctor. Nevertheless, they have achieved a revolution in the field of medicine. It is sometimes said that this new X-ray method…
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