Physiology or Medicine
Paul Greengard – Biographical
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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Ivan Pavlov – Biographical
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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Emil Theodor Kocher – Article
Article
Emil Theodor Kocher by Bertil Hamberger This article was published on 23 July 1997. Theodor Kocher was born in Berne, Switzerland in 1841. He finished his medical studies in 1865 and went into surgery, where he had teachers like Demme, Lycke, Billroth and Langenbeck. In 1872, only 31 years old he was appointed professor of…
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Introduction
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Organisms consist of cells that multiply through cell division. Before a cell can divide it has to grow in size, duplicate its chromosomes and separate the chromosomes for distribution between the two daughter cells. These different processes are…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1921
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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