Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil B. Fredholm of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is not very strange that a car, a television set or some other complex device sometimes stops working. No, the extraordinary thing is that these…

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Robert F Furchgott showed that acetylcholine-induced relaxation of blood vessels was dependent on the endothelium. His “sandwich” experiment set the stage for future scientific development. He used two different pieces of the aorta; one had the endothelial layer intact, in the other it had been removed.

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  The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1993 jointly to Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp for their discovery of split genes.      

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Biographical

I was born in Halmstad, Sweden, on May 21, 1934 to Anders and Kristina Samuelsson. After attending public schools I studied medicine at the University of Lund where I met my wife Karin (Bergstein). We have one son (Bo) and two daughters (Elisabet and Astrid). After a few years in Lund I moved to in…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1910 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As you are aware the medical Nobel Prize has this year been conferred on the Professor of Physiology at the University of Heidelberg, Geheimrat Albrecht Kossel. Before he is presented with…

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