Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Harold E. Varmus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 The literature of my native tongue had its beginnings in your traditional stories, set down in Anglo-Saxon, a language descended from yours, and ancestral to mine. One of the great remnants of this early work, the epic poem Beowulf, teaches the importance of the…

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Banquet speech

Philip S. Hench’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The generous manner in which the Nobel Foundation, the Karolinska Institutet and you have expressed approval of the efforts of Dr. Reichstein, Dr. Kendall, our associates and myself elicits an emotional response which perhaps I am physician enough…

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