Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Erling Norrby of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Our body is composed of independent living entities, which we call cells. The number of cells in a single individual is about 1000 times larger than the number of all individuals on this…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 jointly toAndrew Fire and Craig Mello “for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA” The Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine for 2006, the American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, have discovered a fundamental mechanism of gene regulation. They have shown that…

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Biographical

I was born on the 11th of June 1937, in North Adelaide, South Australia, the first child of middle-class parents. I am a fifth generation South Australian. South Australia is a charming state, a little overfull of the fact that, along with Victoria, it was settled by free settlers from England, who took part in…

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