Physiology or Medicine
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ralf F. Pettersson of the Nobel Committee at , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Stanley B. Prusiner for his discovery of prions – a new biological principle…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 The olfactory system The olfactory epithelium contains millions of olfactory neurons, which send messages directly to the olfactory bulb of the brain. The olfactory receptor cells are the only neurons in the nervous system exposed directly to the external environment. Contents: | | | | | …
moreFrom Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde
PrPc The prion protein exists in two forms. The normal, innocuous protein (PrPc) can change its shape to a harmful, disease-causing form (PrPSc). The conversion from PrPc to PrPSc then proceeds via a chain-reaction. When enough PrPSc proteins have been made they form long filamentous aggregates that gradually damage neuronal tissue. The harmful PrPSc…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1942
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreGerhard Domagk – Biographical
Biographical
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was born on October 30, 1895, at Lagow, a beautiful, small town in the Brandenburg Marches. Until he was fourteen he went to school in Sommerfeld, where his father was assistant headmaster. His mother, Martha Reimer, came from farming stock in the Marches, where she lived in Sommerfeld until 1945 when…
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