1923
Fritz Pregl – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1923 Quantitative Micro-Analysis of Organic Substances In accepting the honour of addressing this illustrious assembly on this proud occasion today, I am complying with § 9 of the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, and I would like to take the opportunity at the same time of expressing my humble thanks to…
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Fritz Pregl – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Fritz Pregl’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1923 (in German) Eure königlichen Hoheiten! Hochansehnliche Versammlung! Die königlich-schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften hat mit ihrem Beschluss vom 13. November dieses Jahres meinen Bemühungen um die Ausarbeitung der quantitativen organischen Mikroanalyse die höchste Anerkennung verliehen, die in der wissenschaftlichen Welt vergeben wird. Freude und…
moreFrederick G. Banting – Biographical
Biographical
Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, Ont., Canada. He was the youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine.…
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John Macleod – Biographical
Biographical
John James Rickard Macleod was born on September 6, 1876 at Cluny, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. He was the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod. When later the family moved to Aberdeen, Macleod went to the Grammar School there and later entered the Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen to study medicine. In 1898…
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