Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 Inhibition as a Coordinative Factor That a muscle on irritation of its nerve contracts had already long been familiar to physiology when the 19th century found a nerve which when irritated prevented its muscle from contracting. This observation seemed for a time too strange to be believed. Its truth did…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945 Penicillin Pdf 119 kB

Sir Alexander Fleming’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 For many years I have read of people getting the Nobel Prize. Then I always regarded them as a superior class to which it was almost impossible to aspire. Now suddenly I find myself in that class and I wonder whether they…

Sir Howard Florey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should wish in the first place to thank most sincerely the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Physiology and Medicine for the very great honour you have conferred on me today. My colleagues…

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Question: When was Sir Alexander Fleming born?Answer: Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield Farm near Darvel, Scotland. Question: When did he die?Answer: Fleming died of a heart attack on 11 March 1955 in London, United Kingdom. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at St Paul’s Cathedral. Question: Who were his…

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Ernst B. Chain’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to express to you my deep gratitude for the very great honour conferred on me by the award of a Nobel prize which has come to be regarded universally as the…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The three of us (Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and myself) thank the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Foundation for honoring us today. And we thank our students and collaborators, whose help was indispensable in our research. But we also…