Physiology or Medicine
George Wald – Biographical
Biographical
George Wald was born in New York City on November 18th, 1906, of immigrant parents, Isaac, who had come from a village near Przemysl, in what was then Austrian Poland, and Ernestine Rosenmann, from a small village near Munich, in Bavaria. After attending public primary and secondary I schools in Brooklyn, he received the degree…
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Biographical
For biographical information on Robert G. Edwards, see the lecture ‘Robert Edwards: Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine’. Pdf 455 kB Robert G. Edwards died on 10 April 2013.
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concerns the basic processes underlying the nervous mechanisms of control and the communication between nerve cells. When physiologists, in the manner of…
morePress release
Press release
NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1995 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1995 jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for their discoveries concerning “the genetic control of early embryonic development”. Summary The 1995 laureates in physiology…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1999 to Günter Blobel, for the discovery that “proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.” Günter Blobel, born in 1936, works at the Laboratory of Cell Biology,…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1916
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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