1981

Mousse de saumon Sauce d´écrevisses ou sauce verte Filet d´élan aux choux de Bruxelles Sauce aux morilles, pommes poireau Confiture de sorbe Parfait Glace Nobel Petits fours VINS G. H. Mumm, Cordon Rouge, Brut Château Saint Germain, 1975 Eau minérale Ramlösa Café BUFFET Long John Whisky Bols Silver Top Dry Gin Campari, Cachucha, Nutty Solera…

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Press release

has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1981 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Prize for 1954, too, was awarded to this institution, in appreciation of its work in bringing relief and aid to the countless refugees and displaced persons to be found in Europe during the immediate post-war…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by John Sanness, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1981 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. I take it that no one regards the award for the prize as exclusively…

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Press release

NOBELFĂ–RSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTETTHE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1981 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1981 with one half to Roger W. Sperry for his discoveries concerning “the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres” and the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten…

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Biographical

Birthplace and Family: Born August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry of Elmwood, a small suburb. Father was in banking; mother trained in business school and after dad’s death, when I was 11 years old, she became assistant to the principal in the local high school. One brother, Russell…

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