Physiology or Medicine

Interview

Interview transcript Welcome to meet the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for 1997, Dr Stanley Prusiner, the man who did as very few scientists do, but all of them will get Nobel Prizes I think, they really turn the concept we have upside down, and please tell me Dr Prusiner, what…

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Interview

Interview transcript We are at the Nobel Foundation and we are very pleased today to welcome Dr Louis Ignarro, the Nobel Prize Laureate of 1998. With me is Professor Göran Hansson of the Karolinska Hospital, who is an expert in cardiovascular research, the area which we are going to…

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Article

French de L’Institut Pasteur est né, en 1888, de la victoire sur la maladie que représentait, pour le monde entier, la vaccination contre la rage par Pasteur. Le grand homme en science, c’est d’abord celui qui sait discerner les bons problèmes au bon moment, quand il y a une chance de leur apporter quelque solution.…

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Biographical

Ancestors The Russian Revolution and the growing influence of the Soviet empire stimulated a migration of Jews to America and Israel. My father’s father, Norman, followed his brother Nathan to Massachusetts where he enlisted in the British foreign brigade to fight in Palestine. He returned to the US and settled in Minnesota, along with a…

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