Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1931 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discovery for which the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is to be awarded today concerns intracellular combustion: that fundamental vital process by which…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Björn Vennström of the Nobel Committee at the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the beginning of a life the newly fertilized egg divides and becomes two cells, then four, eight, and so on. At first, all the cells are alike. Later,…

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Biographical

William Parry Murphy was born on February 6, 1892, at Stoughton Wisconsin, U.S.A. He is the son of Thomas Francis Murphy and Rose Anna Parry, his father being a congregational minister with various pastorates in Wisconsin and Oregon. William Parry was educated at the public schools of Wisconsin and Oregon and at the University of…

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Biographical

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on February 5th, 1914. His parents were George Hodgkin (who died in Baghdad in 1918) and Mary (Wilson) Hodgkin, now Mrs. Lionel Smith. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was educated at the Downs School, Malvern (1923-1927), Greshams School, Holt (1927-1932), and Trinity College, Cambridge (1932-1936). His grandfather, Thomas Hodgkin,…

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