Nobel 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…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973 jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning “organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”. During the first decades of this century research concerning animal behaviour was on its way to be…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010is awarded toRobert G. Edwards”for the development of in vitro fertilization” The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 Robert Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical…

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I was born on 20 November 1886 in Vienna, the son of university professor Anton Ritter von Frisch and his wife Marie, née Exner. I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied…

Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 at Strehlen, in Upper Silesia, Germany. He was the son of Ismar Ehrlich and his wife Rosa Weigert, whose nephew was the great bacteriologist Karl Weigert. Ehrlich was educated at the Gymnasium at Breslau and subsequently at the Universities of Breslau, Strassburg, Freiburg-im-Breisgau and Leipzig. In 1878…