Physiology or Medicine

Biographical

Haldan Keffer Hartline was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, on December 22nd, 1903. His parents were teachers there in the State Normal School (now Bloomsburg State College) where he received his early education. His father, Daniel S. Hartline, was Professor of Biology, but a man whose wide interests also included Astronomy and Geology. It was through…

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Banquet speech

Keffer Hartline’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish I could adequately express my feelings of pleasure and deep gratitude for this great honor that has come to me. But of course this is impossible – one cannot convey one’s personal feelings…

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Article

Emil von Behring: The founder of serum therapy Based on an exhibition at Marburg Castlearranged and documented by Kornelia Grundmann This article was published on 3 December 2001. Upbringing and education (1854-1917) was born on March 15, 1854 in Hansdorf, West Prussia, as the first child of the couple August and Auguste Behring. His father…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1901 Serum Therapy in Therapeutics and Medical Science Serum therapy in the form in which it finds application in the treatment of diphtheria patients is an antitoxic or detoxicating curative method. It is based on the view, held by Löffler in Germany and by Roux in France, that the parasites causing…

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