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Presentation Speech delivered by Mr. Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1982, Oslo, December 10, 1982. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: People occasionally ask whether the task of nominating Peace Prize winners may not prove a difficult…

Alfonso García Robles was born in Zamora in Mexico in 1911. After studying law he entered his country’s foreign service in 1939. From 1962 to 1964 he held the post of Ambassador to Brazil, and from 1964 to 1970 was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1971 to 1975 he was Mexico’s…

has decided to award the Peace Prize for 1982 to two persons who for many years have played a central role in the United Nations’ disarmament negotiations, namely, Alva Myrdal of Sweden and Alfonso García Robles of Mexico. In the disarmament negotiations in Geneva and in many other international bodies, as well as in her…

I was born January 10th, 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden. Degrees 1944D. Med. Sci., Biochemistry, , Stockholm 1944 M. D., Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 1944Docent of Physiological Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Appointments 1938 Research Fellowship, London University, London 1940 – 41 Research Fellowship, Columbia University, New York 1941 – 42 Squibb Institute for Medical Research, New Brunswick,…

I was born in Halmstad, Sweden, on May 21, 1934 to Anders and Kristina Samuelsson. After attending public schools I studied medicine at the University of Lund where I met my wife Karin (Bergstein). We have one son (Bo) and two daughters (Elisabet and Astrid). After a few years in Lund I moved to in…

I was born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire, on the 29th March 1927, one of three children, with an elder sister and brother. My father, Maurice Vane, was a son of immigrants from Russia and my mother, Frances Vane, came from a Worcestershire farming family. We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Pernow of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, taught us that good health requires the four humors – blood from the heart, phlegm from the brain, and the yellow and black bile from the liver and…

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