It is my honor to represent the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 and speak on behalf of Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou, my esteemed colleagues with whom I share the prize.
The event took place at the famous Paris Salon in 1863, where art critics decided which pieces would (and would not) be featured in the esteemed exhibit.
He never spoke of himself, and no one ever knew that in his native city he had been a man much honored and esteemed for learning and integrity, till a countryman came to see him.
ALICE WINKLER: Exactly two decades later, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a member of that esteemed captive audience, the second woman in history to serve on the Supreme Court.
Her maternal grandfather or speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly a title that it hold for 40 years while her father William Smith was a highly esteemed local minister.
And he was the more esteemed for this imperturbable coolness. The universe to the last man might have died, and he would not have missed the smallest of his habits.