Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Contents: | | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web
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Daniel Nathans – Biographical
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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Hugo Theorell, My Father
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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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
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…
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