Physiology or Medicine
Sir John Eccles – Biographical
Biographical
John Carew Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia, on January 27th, 1903. He owes much to his early training by his father, William James Eccles, who was a teacher as also was his mother, née Mary Carew. He graduated from Melbourne University in Medicine with first class honours in 1925, and as Victorian Rhodes Scholar…
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Animation
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An animation illustrating the discovery the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shown during the press conference on October 6, 1997 at Karolinska Institutet, is presented here. The latter part of the presentation contains only images and text. This is a 2.7 Mb Shockwave animation. To download the Shockwave player, click on the icon…
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Edmond H. Fischer – Biographical
Biographical
Memories of my early childhood are clouded with uncertainties because I was essentially separated from my parents since the early age of seven. I was born in Shanghai, China on April 6, 1920. My father had come there from Vienna, Austria after earning doctorates in law and business. My mother, born Renée Tapernoux, had arrived…
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Alfred D. Hershey – Biographical
Biographical
Alfred Day Hershey was born on December 4th, 1908, in Owosso, Michigan. He studied at the Michigan State College, where he obtained B.S. in 1930, and Ph.D. in 1934. In 1967 he got an honorary D.Sc. at the University of Chicago. From 1934 till 1950 he was engaged in teaching and research, at the Department…
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Physiology or Medicine for 1997-Animation
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8. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Nobel Laureate studied a disease called kuru which spread among the Fore people in New Guinea through cannibalistic rituals. Kuru means shivering or trembling in the Fore language. The picture, taken by Gajdusek in 1957, shows an 8-year old girl in an advanced stage of kuru.
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