Nobel Prizes Awarded In Oslo Ceremony

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 9

Nobel Prizes Awarded In Oslo Ceremony

(N.Z.P.A.-RauteT—Copyright)

OSLO, December 10. The 1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Professor Linus Carl Pauling, of the United States, said today the partial nuclear test-ban treaty was the beginning of hope for “peace on earth.”

In his speech of acceptance of the prize at a ceremony in Oslo University he said he saw the prize as a tribute to peaceworkers all over the world.

He paid tribute to scientists and scholars, citing among them Bertrand Russell, of Britain, who were against atomic tests.

Professor Pauling said he believed the day had come when armies would recoil from war because of fear of the new weapons. The 1962 and 1963 Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to mark the anniversary of Dr. Alfred Nobel's death in 1896

Professor Pauling, who won the chemistry prize in 1954, received the 1962 peace prize of 257,219 crowns for his contributions to the campaign against nuclear weapons. Mr Leopold Boissier, Swiss chairman of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Dr. John Macaulay, Canadian chairman of the Board of the League of the Red Cross Societies, shared the 1963 award of 265.000 crowns for the humanitarian efforts of their organisations. Sir John Eccles, of Australia. today received his prize for physiology and medicine He shared the award with Professor Andrew Huxley, JodreU Professor of Physiology at University College, London, and Professor Alan

Lloyd Hodgkin, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his presentation speech, Professor Ragnar Granit, of the Caroline Institute, Sweden, said they had brought understanding of the nerves to a level “which your contemporaries did not expect to witness in their lifetime.” The Greek poet, George Seferis, received a prize for literature. Other winners were:— Professor Maria GoeppertMayer and Professor Eugene Wigner, both of the United States, and Professor Hans Jensen, West Germany (physics). Professor Karl Ziegler, West Germany, and Professor Guilio Natta, Italy (chemistry). The nine winners from seven countries honoured were a record number of laureates in the 62 years of the awards.

A glittering array of statesmen, scientists and diplomats gathered in a chandeliered concert hall for the ceremony.

Each prize is worth 265,000 crowns.

The prizes are financed by income from the estate of Alfred Nobel, who died 67 years ago today.