When I was called to Stockholm, at the end of 1950, to receive the Nobel Prize - somewhat to my surprise, for literature, for my book Marriage and Morals - I was apprehensive, since I remembered that, exactly three hundred years earlier, Descartes had been called to Scandinavia by Queen Christina in the winter time and had died of the cold. ... My dinner companion was Madame Joliot-Curie and I found her talk interesting. Source：The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3, chap. 1 More info.（pc site）:http://russell-j.com/beginner/AB31-230.HTM
When I was called to Stockholm, at the end of 1950, to receive the Nobel Prize - somewhat to my surprise, for literature, for my book Marriage and Morals - I was apprehensive, since I remembered that, exactly three hundred years earlier, Descartes had been called to Scandinavia by Queen Christina in the winter time and had died of the cold. ... My dinner companion was Madame Joliot-Curie and I found her talk interesting.