Nobel Prize

Schack August Steenberg Krogh – A versatile genius by Jan Lindsten 2 April 2001 “The physiologist’s physiologist” In 1997, at the Sixteenth Nordic Congress of Medical History in Stockholm, Dr. Ole Munck – consultant at the Museum of Medical History in Copenhagen, concluded his presentation about with the following comment: “We are facing a versatile…

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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As you know, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the current year has been awarded to Allvar Gullstrand, Professor at the University of Uppsala, for his works concerning the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Georg Klein of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Even the longest journey starts with a single step, the old Chinese have said. The first step of the long journey that has led the three Laureates in Medicine to us tonight was…

Paul Lauterbur’s quest to develop a medical imaging tool that worked using magnetism succeeded through a mixture of accidental meetings, detours and dogged persistence. “All detours should be so productive!” cried at the end of his Nobel Lecture. Lauterbur found himself changing course from chemistry to medical imaging, but thanks to a series of unexpected…

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In the fall of 1921 I attended the only course in genetics open to undergraduate students at Cornell University. It was conducted by C. B. Hutchison, then a professor in the Department of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, who soon left Cornell to become Chancellor of the University of California at Davis, California. Relatively few…

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 10, 1887, one of the eight children of Dr. Albert and Clara (née Laffont) Houssay, who had come to Argentina from France. His father was a barrister. His early education was at a private school, the Colegio Británico. He then entered the School of…