Nobel Peace Prize: Obama to make speech Thursday in Oslo

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They’ve already had the lecture on ‘Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End,’’ by Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine.

And they’ve already heard the lecture on ‘Decoding the Genetic Message,’’ by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the prizewinners in chemistry. And the ones on ‘Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems’’ by Elinor Ostrom and ‘The Economics of Governance,’’ by Oliver E. Williamson, 2009 Nobel Prize winners in economics.

But Thursday, starting at 1 p.m. Oslo, Norway, time, at Oslo City Hall, another chemistry altogether will be at work at the lectern when President Obama delivers the Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. Think of it as a celebration of political science, with the Nobel Committee itself sending a message that shouldn’t be too difficult for the world to decode.

Read the full report in the Swamp.