Nobel Prize lecture, 8 December 2011

Nobel Prize lecture, 8 December 2011

Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2006

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 13, 1976

I was born July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the fourth and last child and first son of Sarah Ethel (Landau) and Jeno Saul Friedman. My parents were born in Carpatho-Ruthenia (then a province of Austria-Hungary; later, part of inter-war Czechoslovakia, and, currently, of the Soviet Union). They...