Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, delivering the presentation speech for the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 1994. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee…

Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922; he studied at the Kadoorie Agricultural College where he graduated with distinction. His military career began in 1940 when he joined the “Palmach”, the elite unit of the Haganah. During the War of Independence (1948-1949), he commanded the Harel Brigade, deployed on the Jerusalem front. For the…

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I was born on December 1, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland where I attended public schools and graduated from the accelerated course at Baltimore City College, a public high school of special note because it took selected students from around the city. An all boys school, it resembled a private college preparatory school in both its…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 10 October 1994 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1994 jointly to Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell for their discovery of “G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells”. Summary It has been…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil B. Fredholm of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is not very strange that a car, a television set or some other complex device sometimes stops working. No, the extraordinary thing is that these…

The Loker Hydrocarbon building (east elevation) Photo: Adrian Velicescu Located at the heart of the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, California, the Loker Institute’s 43,000 square feet building features well-equipped state-of-the art laboratories and an attractive work environment. The George and Judy Olah library and the splendid reading room atop the building…

Hydrocarbons for the 21st century – The work of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute by George A. Olah1994 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry This article was published on 6 September 1999. Hydrocarbons derived from petroleum, natural gas, or coal are essential in many ways to modern life and its quality. The bulk of the world’s…