Prizes

Biographical

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892. At the time I was born my father was 19 years old and in the…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The medical sciences are mutually interdependent. Progress in one field is often closely associated with development in others. The rise in one branch of science can often have its origin in…

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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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