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Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen I come humbly before you speaking for myself along with Co-Laureates – Dr. Richard Heck and Dr. Akira Suzuki. We are deeply honored to be recognized with this wonderful distinction. Receiving a Nobel Prize is the ultimate recognition for a lifetime spent questioning, exploring,…

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Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. I was asked to represent the 2009 Chemistry laureates, who are three different people. We belong to different nationalities, genders, views and upbringings. However, we…

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Banquet speech

Your majesties, your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentlemen: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and I would like to thank those responsible for this great honor and to make some observations about what the Green Fluorescent Protein (or GFP) teaches us. We are deeply grateful that the Nobel committee and the Royal Academy of…

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