Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Light, shadows and colours do not exist in the world around us. What we perceive visually and call light is the result of the action of a certain portion of…

  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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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…

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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Presentation Speech by F. Henschen, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1933 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Honourable Audience. As long as human beings have existed they will have observed children’s resemblance to their parents, the resemblance or non-resemblance of brothers and sisters, and the appearance of characteristic qualities…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Wallgren, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Shortly after the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by in 1882 a search was made for an effective therapeutic agent against this germ. Eight years later Koch announced that he had succeeded in…

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