Nobel Prize

Bernard Katz was born on March 26th, 1911, in Leipzig, Germany, of Russian Jewish origin, only son of Max Katz and Eugenie Rabinowitz. His school education was at the Albert Gymnasium in Leipzig (1921-1929). He studied Medicine at the University of Leipzig, 1929-1934; received the Siegfried Garten Prize for physiological research in 1933 and obtained…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1907 Protozoa as Causes of Diseases My scientific colleagues of the Caroline Institute having done me the very great honour of awarding me the Nobel Prize in Medicine this year for my work on diseases due to Protozoa, the regulations of the Nobel Foundation oblige me to give a summary of…

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Presentation Speech by Professor J. Åkerman, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1912 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Royal Caroline Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Doctor Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Göran K. Hansson, Sekreterare i och i Medicinska Nobelkommittén, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, Vi lever farligt. Under den timme ni sitter här i Konserthuset byter ni miljontals bakterier och virus med varandra.  Lyckligtvis är ni utrustade med bra försvar, och därför…

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My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina, and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family. For both my mother and my father, no sacrifice was too hard to make sure that their three sons (I…