Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor B. Uvnäs, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The work of Daniel Bovet should be considered in its context, bearing in mind what had been found out about biological amines between about 1920 and 1930. It had been thought that nerve…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Klein, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The year was 1910. Only recently had it been understood that every cell of the body has been derived from another cell by division and that cancer cells…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1971 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1971 to Earl Sutherland for his discoveries concerning “the mechanisms of the action of hormones”. Sutherland has started his investigations already some twenty years ago. In collaboration with the Nobel Laureate he studied the mechanism by which epinephrine regulates…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE October 1978 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1978 jointly to Werner Arber, Dan Nathans and Hamilton Smith for the discovery of “restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”. Summary Restriction enzymes provide the “chemical knives”…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1989 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1989 jointly to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus for their discovery of “the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”. Summary The discovery awarded with this year’s Nobel Prize…

English NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 2000 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2000 Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system” Summary In the human brain there are more than hundred…

Presentation Speech by Professor Urban Ungerstedt of the December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Urban Ungerstedt delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard, the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What applies to bacteria also applies to elephants. This free quotation after the French Nobel prize winner, , illustrates with some exaggeration one important principle of biology: that of the identity of the fundamental life processes. Yet one…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Their research opens up the possibility to copy human beings in the laboratory, to construct geniuses, to massproduce workers, or to create criminals.” This is a quotation from the presentation on Swedish television…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Erling Norrby of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Our body is composed of independent living entities, which we call cells. The number of cells in a single individual is about 1000 times larger than the number of all individuals on this…