The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the great work it performed on behalf of humanity during World War II. Full name: International Committee of the Red CrossNative name: Comité international de la Croix RougeFounded: 1863, in Geneva, SwitzerlandDate awarded: 12 November 1945 The white buses The International Committee…

Still Human https://youtu.be/FH1sxAd7xVU “Losing a leg made me view myself as the least valuable person in the world” In 1998, Makur Diet in war-damaged South Sudan lost his leg to a bullet. Despairing for his future, Makur was close to committing suicide, until he was given a prosthetic leg. Makur realised that he now had…

Otto Hahn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 (in German) Der Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und dem Nobelkomite möchte ich meinen tiefgefühlten Dank aussprechen für die grosse Ehre, die sie mir mit der Erteilung des Nobelpreises erwiesen haben, und auch Ihnen, sehr verehrter Herr Präsident Curman, möchte ich herzlich danken für…

When it comes to sending electrical nerve signals, some messages are more urgent than others. Our muscles need to be activated quickly when we are attacked, for instance, while our receptors for chronic pain do not require such a rapid response. To meet these various delivery requirements, nerve fibres differ considerably in the way they…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1945 Mammalian Nerve Fibers Pdf 114 kB

Herbert S. Gasser’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The pleasure of the moment could only be augmented had it been possible for more of the group of which I am a member to have been able to accept the invitation to be here…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947 Some Observations on the Responses of Single Nerve Fibers Pdf 141 kB

Since the Red Cross has figured four times in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize (, 1944, and ), as well as in the award to (1901), and has therefore been made the subject of various presentation speeches and Nobel lectures which give details of its inception, history, and activities, the following brief summary…