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Credits Production TWI: Narrator: Josette Simon Titles and Graphics: Kevin Cooney Editor: Gidon Benari Sound: Stuart Browne Researcher: Alex Gervin Production Manager: Kate Best Executive Producer: Rick Thomas Producer: Linda Daniel Camera: Sveriges Television AB – SVT Copyright Acknowledgements: Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier Linda Buck Copyright © Nobel Media AB/TWI 2004

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Award ceremony speech

In regard to Einthoven’s work, Professor J.E. Johansson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , made the following statement The Staff of Professors of the Royal Caroline Institute has on 23rd October, 1924, decided to confer this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the Professor of Physiology at…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor S. Gard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. A person’s individuality finds many different expressions. In daily life we rely upon such vague means of recognition as facial features, general build, manner of being, moving, and speaking. All these characteristics can…

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004   The organization of odorant receptor inputs in the olfactory cortex Signals derived from two different odorant receptors, M5 and M50, are targeted to different, but partially overlapping clusters of cortical neurons. These clusters have similar locations in the brains of different mice.     Receptor activation…

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  The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 to Stanley B. Prusiner, for his discovery of “prions – a new biological principle of infection”. Stanley B. Prusiner was born in 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Since 1968 he has been…

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