Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1913 In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Anglo-Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, the Academy has found itself in the happy position of being able to accord this recognition to an author who, in conformity with the express…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Horace Engdahl, Ständige Sekreterare, ledamot av Svenska Akademien, i Stockholms Konserthus 10 december 2004. Horace Engdahl presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2004 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders kungliga högheter, Mina damer och herrar, Det första man förundras över när man läser Elfriede Jelinek är den egendomliga, blandade stämma som…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , at its regular meeting on December 14, 1939 The diploma of a Nobel Prize has just been given to you and you have heard the reasons which led the Swedish Academy to accord this distinction to your literary work. These reasons are very briefly stated…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the The Nobel Prize laureate in literature for this year bears a name of unusual sound, which he chose at first to protect himself from the curious. Saint-John Perse is the poet’s name that was to be made internationally famous by a private man who in civil…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1901 When Alfred Nobel decided to make the great donation which has justly received much attention, his entire life’s work led him to favour the study of nature and to reward discoveries in some of the sciences concerned with it. Likewise,…

Presentation Speech by the Librarian of the National Library, Dr. E.W. Dahlgren, President of , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for the year 1911, to Wilhelm Wien, Professor at the University of Würzburg, for his discoveries…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Dr. Georg Bednorz and Professor Dr. Alex Müller by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences “for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Dr Leon Lederman, Dr Melvin Schwartz and Dr Jack Steinberger. The citation has the following wording,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Johansson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The problem of the basic structure of matter has long interested man but it was not until the time of the Greek philosophers that the problem took on a scientific character. These ideas reached…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Professor Börje Johansson, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee in Physics, 10 December 2007. Professor Börje Johansson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize…