Physiology or Medicine

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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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001                 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Paul Nurse for their discoveries of “key regulators of the cell cycle”. Using genetic and…

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Biographical

My paternal great, great grandfather emigrated from Koenigsberg, currently Kaliningrad, to St. Louis during the 1850s, a time of large-scale movement of Germans, including German Jews, to the Mid-Western United States. My paternal grandfather moved to Binghamton, New York, where my father was born. My father had success in vaudeville as a singer/dancer/comedian. He eventually…

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Biographical

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849 at Ryazan, where his father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was a village priest. He was educated first at the church school in Ryazan and then at the theological seminary there. Inspired by the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics…

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