14 October 1980 has decided to award the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry by one half to Professor Paul Berg, Stanford University, USA, for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA, and the other half jointly to Professor Walter Gilbert, Harvard University, USA, and Professor Frederick Sanger, Cambridge…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The body and soul of man is the most complex and refined chemical machine that we know. Even the simplest forms of life, for example bacteria, are almost immeasurably intricate systems compared to…

I was born on March 21, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. My father, Richard V. Gilbert, an economist, was at that time at Harvard University. He worked for the Office of Price Administration during the second World War and later headed up a planning group advising the Pakistani government. My mother, Emma Cohen, was a child…

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Czesław Miłosz was born June 30, 1911 in Seteiniai, Lithuania, as a son of Aleksander Miłosz, a civil engineer, and Weronika, née Kunat. He made his high-school and university studies in Wilno, then belonging to Poland. A co-founder of a literary group “Zagary”, he made his literary début in 1930, published in the 1930s two…

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Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania, in 1911, to a family with a background of ancient lineage and in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania and grew up in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt in earnest.…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Ekspong of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. By decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded Professor James Cronin and Professor Val Fitch for their discovery in a joint experiment of violations…