Chemistry

Banquet speech

Melvin Calvin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.…

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Banquet speech

Willard F. Libby’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 Today we see more clearly than ever how any single piece of research in science is due to the efforts of many people. You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues…

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Banquet speech

Jaroslav Heyrovsky’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Having obtained the highest scientific distinction to be laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1959, I have the pleasant duty to thank most cordially to the Nobel Foundation and to the Royal…

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