Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Häggquist, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1935 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. When the Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute decided that Professor Hans Spemann should be considered pre-eminently for this year’s Nobel Prize it was the first time…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, pursuant to the task devolving upon them by the terms of the will of Alfred Nobel, have awarded the Prize…

The following account of Heymans’s work is by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the For over a century now it has been known that respiration in vertebrates including man is regulated from a small area in the medulla, known as the respiratory centre. From this centre nervous impulses of variable…

In regard to Dam’s and Doisy’s works, Professor A. Lichtenstein, Member of the Staff of Professors of the , made the following statement The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded this year for theoretically and practically important discoveries regarding the clotting or coagulation of the blood. The Danish investigator Henrik Dam received…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Wallgren, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Shortly after the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by in 1882 a search was made for an effective therapeutic agent against this germ. Eight years later Koch announced that he had succeeded in…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of the Karolinska Institutet has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Professor Hans Adolf Krebs and Professor Fritz Lipmann. This is an acknowledgement of fast and significant…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Engström, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Audience. An attempt to explain the significance of the discovery which has led to this year’s Nobel Prize award in Physiology or Medicine could begin at a point which seems to be far from the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concerns the basic processes underlying the nervous mechanisms of control and the communication between nerve cells. When physiologists, in the manner of…

  Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Light, shadows and colours do not exist in the world around us. What we perceive visually and call light is the result of the action of a certain portion of…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1972 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1972 jointly to Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter for their discoveries concerning “the chemical structure of antibodies”. Antibodies is the collective name of a group of blood proteins that play an important part in the defense against…