1932
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of , on December 10, 1933 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prizes for Physics are dedicated to the new atomic physics. The prizes, which the Academy of Sciences has at its disposal, have namely been…
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Sir Charles Sherrington – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 Inhibition as a Coordinative Factor That a muscle on irritation of its nerve contracts had already long been familiar to physiology when the 19th century found a nerve which when irritated prevented its muscle from contracting. This observation seemed for a time too strange to be believed. Its truth did…
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