Physiology or Medicine
Protein synthesis
How do newly synthesized proteins find their correct destinations within a cell, and how are they able to pass across the tightly sealed intracellular membranes? These were the central questions that Günter Blobel began to address in the late 1960s. He started by analyzing how newly synthesized secretory proteins are first targeted to and then…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1918
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreRonald Ross – Biographical
Biographical
Ronald Ross was born on May 13, 1857, as the son of Sir C.C.G. Ross, a General in the English army. He commenced the study of medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1875; entered the Indian Medical Service in 1881. He commenced the study of malaria in 1892. In 1894 he determined to…
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George H. Whipple – Biographical
Biographical
George Hoyt Whipple was born on August 28, 1878, in Ashland, New Hampshire, U.S.A., the son of Dr. Ashley Cooper Whipple and his wife Frances Hoyt. His paternal grandfather and his father, both physicians, were born and bred in New Hampshire. Whipple was educated at Andover Academy and then went to Yale University, where he…
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Maurice Wilkins – Biographical
Biographical
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was born at Pongaroa, New Zealand, on December 15th, 1916. His parents came from Ireland; his father Edgar Henry Wilkins was a doctor in the School Medical Service and was very interested in research but had little opportunity for it. At the age of 6, Wilkins was brought to England and…
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