Nobel Prize

Andrew Fielding Huxley was born in Hampstead, London, on 22nd November 1917. His father, Leonard Huxley, who was a son of the nineteenth – century scientist and writer Thomas Huxley, was for a time a classics master at Charterhouse School and later took up a literary career, writing a number of biographies and being editor…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1905 The Current State of the Struggle against Tuberculosis Twenty years ago, tuberculosis, even in its most dangerous form, consumption, was still not considered infectious. Of course, the work of Villemin and the experimental investigations by Cohnheim and Salomonsen had already provided certain clues which suggested that this conception was false.…

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Presentation Speech by Professor I. Holmgren, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1934 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Caroline Institute has awarded this year’s prize for Physiology or Medicine to three American investigators, viz. Professor George Minot, of the Harvard Medical School (Boston), Dr. William…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of the Karolinska Institutet has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Professor Hans Adolf Krebs and Professor Fritz Lipmann. This is an acknowledgement of fast and significant…

  Presentation Speech by Professor David Ottoson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One day in October 1649, René Descartes, the French philosopher and mathematician acknowledged as the greatest brain researcher of the period, arrived in Stockholm at the pressing invitation of Queen Christina. It was…

English 2010-10-04 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization Summary 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…