The Nobel Prize: Jean Baptiste Perrin Nobel Lecture

Read James Dewey Watson's Nobel Lecture "The involvement of RNA in the synthesis of proteins." This lecture, originally given December 11, 1962, is provided in PDF format.

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At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can download and read Joseph John Thomson's Nobel Lecture, "Carriers of Negative Electricity" (in pdf format).

At this site download and read Glenn Theodore Seaborg's Nobel Lecture, "The transuranium elements: present status," which is available in PDF format.

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At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can download and read Wendell Meredith Stanley's Nobel Lecture, entitled "The isolation and properties of crystalline tobacco mosaic virus." Lecture is available in PDF format.

Read the Presentation Speech, originally given by Professor C.W. Oseen, in which Oseen praises the scientific investigations of Jean Baptiste Perrin, the physicist who "worked with [his] head and [his] hands in the service of atomistic...