诺贝尔奖作为每年一度的重要奖项，其获奖者不仅在各自的专业领域内造诣非凡，而且其睿智的思想、伟大的心灵以及求真务实的态度、永不言败的精神，在这个浮躁的社会里更显得弥足珍贵。拿起这本《精选集》细细读来，除了获得英语水平的提高以外，更能获得知识的拓展、心灵上的陶冶以及人格上的升华。

全书包括两部分：经济学卷和自然科学卷。诺贝尔奖获奖者也均来自这两个领域，其中自然科学卷又涵盖几个领域，包括物理学、化学和生理学/医学。考虑到本书使用者的背景，我们对部分获奖者的演说辞作了节选，对一些句子作了注释，并对获奖者作了简单的介绍。对于有一定英语基础或具有中等英语水平以上的读者，我们相信这本《精选集》是一个不错的选择。

Part One Nobel Lectures on Economics

1.Simon Kuznets

 Modem Economic Growth：Findings and Reflections

2.Friedrich August von Hayek

 The Pretence of Knoowledge

3.Leonid Vialitvevich Kantorovich

 Mathematics in Economics：Achievements,Difficulties，and Perspectives

4.James E.Meade

 The Meaning of“Internal Balance”

5.Theodore W.Schultz

 The Economics of Being Poor

6.Sir Arthur Lewis

 The Slowing Down of the Engine of growth

7.James M.Buchanan Jr.

 The Constitution of Economic Policy

8.Trygve Haavelmo

 Econometries and the Welfare state

9.Ronald H.Coase

 The Institutional Structure of Production

10.Douglass C.North

 Economic Performance through Time

Part Two Nobel Lectures in Natural Science

11.Pieree Curie

 Radioactive substances，especially radium

12.Sir William Ramsay

 The Rare Gases of the Atmosphere

13.Robert Koch

 The Current State of the Struggle against Tuberculosis

14.Illya Ilyich Mechnikov

 On the Present State of the Question of Immunity in Infectious Diseases

15.Marie Curie

 Radium and the New Concepts in Chemistry

16.Theodore William Richards

 Atomic Weights

17.Frederick G.Banting

 Diabetes and Insulin

18.Irène Joliot-Curie

 Artificial Production of Radioactive Elements

19.Donald Arthur Glaser

 Elementary particles and bubble chambers

20.Luis Walter al Varez

 Recent developments in particle physics

21.Max Delbriick

 A Physicist's Renewed Look at Biology—Twenty Years Later

22.Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

 The Identification of Genes Controlling Development in Flies and Fishes