Physiology or Medicine
Press release
Press release
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973 jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning “organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”. During the first decades of this century research concerning animal behaviour was on its way to be…
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Popular information
Popular information
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010is awarded toRobert G. Edwards”for the development of in vitro fertilization” The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 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 medical…
moreChristiaan Eijkman – Biographical
Biographical
Christiaan Eijkman was born on August 11, 1858, at Nijkerk in Gelderland (The Netherlands), the seventh child of Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school, and Johanna Alida Pool. A year later, in 1859, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for advanced elementary…
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Henrik Dam – Biographical
Biographical
Carl Peter Henrik Dam was born in Copenhagen on 21st February 1895, to Emil Dam, apothecary, and his wife Emilie (née Peterson), a teacher. The young man graduated in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen in 1920, and the same year was appointed instructor (assistant) in chemistry at the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine,…
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