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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The medical sciences are mutually interdependent. Progress in one field is often closely associated with development in others. The rise in one branch of science can often have its origin in…

  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…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 jointly toAndrew Fire and Craig Mello “for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA” The Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine for 2006, the American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, have discovered a fundamental mechanism of gene regulation. They have shown that…

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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the south shore of Long Island, a product of the early twentieth century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. My father’s father, Jacob Varmus, left a village of uncertain name near Warsaw just after…

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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”…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, December 10, 2006. Professor Göran K. Hansson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and…

Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Sten Grillner – Physiology Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry and Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology Lars Olson – Neurobiology Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Urban Ungerstedt – Neuropsychopharmacology Art Director: Urban Frank Micrographs: Ruud Ubink and Tomas Hökfelt Medical Writer: Anders Nystrand Printed by David…