Physiology or Medicine
Thomas H. Weller – Biographical
Biographical
Thomas Huckle Weller was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 15th, 1915. He was educated at the public schools there, and later at the University of Michigan, where his father, Carl Vernon Weller had an appointment in the Pathology Department of the Medical School. Entering this University in 1932, T. H. Weller graduated in…
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Leland H. Hartwell – Biographical
Biographical
I don’t remember much about my early childhood. I am told that before I began school, my older cousin would return from her school and teach me what she had learned. By the time I was 10 or so, I was displaying a curiosity that might have suggested an academic bent. I was an avid…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system”. Carlsson discovered that dopamine is a transmitter, Greengard found that dopamine and other “slow” transmitters act by protein phosphorylation, and Kandel…
moreCredits and References for the 2001 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Anita Aperia – Paediatrics Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology, Chairman of the Nobel Committee Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Anders Zetterberg – Tumour Cytology…
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