Links to other sites Videos Watch a video about the history behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923. The video was made by Lars Rydén, Jan Lindsten & Magnus Lindsten.

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Nobel Lecture, May 23, 1924 The Electron and the Light-Quant from the Experimental Point of View Pdf 130 kB

Nobel Lecture, September 15, 1925 Diabetes and Insulin Gentlemen. I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod. I am fully aware of the responsibility which rests upon me to deliver an address in which certain aspects of the…

Nobel Lecture, May 26, 1925 The Physiology of Insulin and Its Source in the Animal Body The knowledge that the isles of Langerhans of the pancreas have the function of secreting into the blood a hormone which plays an essential role in the regulation of the metabolism of the carbohydrates, is the outcome of numerous…

Nobel Lecture, December 15, 1923 The Irish Dramatic Movement I have chosen as my theme the Irish Dramatic Movement because when I remember the great honour that you have conferred upon me, I cannot forget many known and unknown persons. Perhaps the English committees would never have sent you my name if I had written…

William Butler Yeats’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1923 I have been all my working life indebted to the Scandinavian nation. When I was a very young man, I spent several years writing in collaboration with a friend the first interpretation of the philosophy of the English poet Blake.…

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Selected works Mosada : a Dramatic Poem. – Dublin : Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886 The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. – London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1889 The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics. – London : Unwin, 1892 The Celtic Twilight. – London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. –…