Physiology or Medicine
Thomas C. Südhof – Biographical
Biographical
Upbringing I was born in Göttingen on December 22, 1955. At that time, the aftermaths of the Second World War were still reverberating. Mine was an anthroposophical family; my maternal grandparents had been early followers of Rudolf Steiner’s teaching, and worked for Waldorf schools when Hitler assumed power and banned the anthrophosophical movement. Waldorf schools…
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Otto Meyerhof – Biographical
Biographical
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was born on April 12, 1884, in Hannover. He was the son of Felix Meyerhof, a merchant of that city and his wife Bettina May. Soon after his birth his family moved to Berlin, where he went to the Wilhelms Gymnasium (classical secondary school). Leaving school at the age of 14, he…
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The Nobel Prize medal in physiology or medicine
Facts
The medal of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute represents the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to quench a sick girl’s thirst. The inscription reads: Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes The words on the medal mean literally: It…
moreSatoshi Ōmura – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
William C. Campbell – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
