Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002               The Implications of the Discoveries Some diseases characterized by defective cell death (left) and excessive cell death (right). The introduction of C. elegans as a novel experimental model system, the characterization of its invariant cell lineage, and the…

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Biographical

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. My mother, Sarah Levitan, came to America when she was 18. My father, Samuel, rebelling against an orthodox family, left home in his midteens…

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Article

Hugo Theorell, My Father by Henning Theorell This article was published on 24 February 2011. Looking for source material 25 years after anybody’s death is never easy, but what follows reflects my best efforts to cast some light on the personal life of my father, Hugo Theorell (1903–1982). Hugo Theorell is perhaps best known for…

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