Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 The Chemical Transmission of Nerve Action Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned. Up until the year 1921 it was not known how the stimulation of a nerve influenced…

more

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 Some Recent Extensions of the Chemical Transmission of the Effects of Nerve Impulses The transmission of the effects of nerve impulses, by the release of chemical agents, first became an experimental reality in 1921. In that year Otto Loewi published the first of the series , , , , ,…

more

Nobel Prize lecture

English I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement Nobel Lecture in Absentia, December 10, 2010 Statement of December 23, 2009 Read by Liv Ullmann [TRANSLATION BY HRIC*] In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of…

more

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1926 Discontinuous Structure of Matter Since I have the great honour to have to summarize here the work which has enabled me to receive the high international distinction awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, I shall speak of the “discontinuous structure of matter”. Introduction A fluid such as air or…

more