Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize lecture

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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Press release

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…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Pernow of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, taught us that good health requires the four humors – blood from the heart, phlegm from the brain, and the yellow and black bile from the liver and…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Sten Lindahl of the at the Karolinska Institutet, December 10, 1998. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Sten Lindahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Robert Furchgott,…

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Press release

Swedish 2011-10-03 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2011 skall delas, med ena hälften gemensamt till Bruce A. Beutler och Jules A. Hoffmann för deras upptäckter rörande aktivering av medfödd immunitet och andra hälften till Ralph M. Steinman för hans upptäckt av dendritcellen och dess roll vid förvärvad immunitet Sammanfattning Årets…

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