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Avram Hershko – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honored Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the three of us, Irwin Rose, Aaron Ciechanover and myself, I would like to express our deep gratitude to the Nobel Foundation and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for bestowing upon us this greatest honor and scientific…
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Peter Agre – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Guests: Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel’s will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a…
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