English (Translation) Your Majesty, Mr. President of the , Committee Members, Ladies and Gentlemen: With humility I stand before you to receive the high distinction that the Nobel Committee and the Parliament grant to those who have committed their lives on behalf of peace and to the pursuit of justice and solidarity…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 10 October 1980 has decided today to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1980 jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George Snell for their discoveries concerning “genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”. Summary The surface of…

4 photos   To cite this pageMLA style: “Photo gallery – The Nobel Banquet 1980”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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I was born on 13th August 1918 in the village of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, where my father, also Frederick Sanger, was a medical practitioner. Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of…

Leo Byron Klein and Blanche (Monheit) Klein, both of whom were born in the American Middle West, had three children. I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school…

15 October 1980 THIS YEAR’s PRIZE IN ECONOMICS AWARDED FOR EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF BUSINESS FLUCTUATIONS has decided to award the 1980 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Lawrence R. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA, for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies.…

Presentation Speech by Professor Herman Wold of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The great economic depression in the early and mid-1930’s marks the beginning of a new epoch in economic politics and economic science. The scourge of unemployment was severe and lasting, until it was swamped…

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