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Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In the year 1563 the Italian anatomist, Eustachi, described how, at the upper poles of the kidneys in man, he had found two gland-like organs, which had been overlooked up to that time, but…

Press release NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 12, 1998 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1998 jointly to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their discoveries concerning “nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”. Nitric oxide…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil B. Fredholm of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is not very strange that a car, a television set or some other complex device sometimes stops working. No, the extraordinary thing is that these…

Robert F Furchgott showed that acetylcholine-induced relaxation of blood vessels was dependent on the endothelium. His “sandwich” experiment set the stage for future scientific development. He used two different pieces of the aorta; one had the endothelial layer intact, in the other it had been removed.

  The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1993 jointly to Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp for their discovery of split genes.      

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I was born in Halmstad, Sweden, on May 21, 1934 to Anders and Kristina Samuelsson. After attending public schools I studied medicine at the University of Lund where I met my wife Karin (Bergstein). We have one son (Bo) and two daughters (Elisabet and Astrid). After a few years in Lund I moved to in…

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