Prizes
J. Robin Warren – Biographical
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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Press release
Press release
NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE October 1978 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1978 jointly to Werner Arber, Dan Nathans and Hamilton Smith for the discovery of “restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”. Summary Restriction enzymes provide the “chemical knives”…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, December 10, 2006. Professor Göran K. Hansson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and…
moreHarold E. Varmus – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the south shore of Long Island, a product of the early twentieth century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. My father’s father, Jacob Varmus, left a village of uncertain name near Warsaw just after…
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