Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Olivecrona, member of the Staff of Professors of the . Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Caroline Institute, through the presentation of this year’s Nobel Prize, desires to reward two important discoveries in the fields of neurophysiology and its clinical application, neurology. Both of these discoveries touch upon the connection…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In the year 1563 the Italian anatomist, Eustachi, described how, at the upper poles of the kidneys in man, he had found two gland-like organs, which had been overlooked up to that time, but…

Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In one of his scientific papers von Békésy describes that on board a ship he became interested in how the fog horn was made, since he had been struck by the fact that…

  Presentation Speech by Professor P. Reichard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. During the fall of 1868, exactly 100 years ago, a young Swiss physician by the name of Friedrich Miescher isolated a new type of compound from cell nuclei. He called…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1970 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1970 jointly to Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod for their discoveries concerning “the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanisms for their storage, release and inactivation”. The discoveries which this year’s Nobel laureates have…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1975 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1975 jointly to David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin for their discoveries concerning “the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell”. The fact that the viruses can cause tumours was shown already more than…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1984 jointly to Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler and César Milstein for theories concerning “the specificity in development and control of the immune system” and the discovery of “the principle for…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 10 October 1994 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1994 jointly to Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell for their discovery of “G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells”. Summary It has been…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 7 October 1996 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1996 jointly to Peter C Doherty and Rolf M Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning “the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”. Summary Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel have…

Press release NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 12, 1998 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1998 jointly to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their discoveries concerning “nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”. Nitric oxide…