Physiology or Medicine
Selman A. Waksman – Biographical
Biographical
Selman Abraham Waksman was born in Priluka, near Kiev, Russia, on July 22nd, 1888, as the son of Jacob Waksman and Fradia London. He received his early education primarily from private tutors, and completed his school training in Odessa in an evening school and with private tutors. He obtained his matriculation diploma in 1910 from…
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Ragnar Granit – Biographical
Biographical
Ragnar Arthur Granit was born in the parish of Helsinge, Finland, on October 30th, 1900, eldest son of the Crown forester Arthur Wilhelm Granit and his wife Albertina Helena Malmberg. The family then moved to the neighbourhood of Helsingfors where his father opened a firm dealing with sylviculture and forest produce and the son became…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor W. Wernstedt, Dean of the , December 10, 1927 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Few diseases have the power of inspiring fear to the same degree as cancer. However, who would be surprised at that? How many times is this affliction not synonymous with a long, painful and…
morePress release
Press release
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1977 has decided that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1977 should be divided, one half being awarded jointly to Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally for their discoveries concerning “the peptide hormone production of the brain” and the other half to Rosalyn Yalow for “the development of radioimmunoassays of peptid…
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