Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Johansson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1923 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The object of physiology is to endeavour to recognize in the vital processes well-known physical and chemical processes. Accordingly it has to give answers to…

Presentation Speech by Professor J. Sjöquist, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1923 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Professorial Staff of the Caroline Institute has resolved to award to Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and Professor John James Richard Macleod the Nobel Prize…

Presentation Speech by Professor F. Henschen, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1928 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In awarding the 1928 Nobel Prize for Medicine to Dr. Charles Nicolle, Director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis, the Caroline Institute wished to pay tribute to a…

In regard to Erlanger’s and Gasser’s works, Professor , Head of the Department of Neurophysiology of the Nobel Institute of the , made the following statement. Three great electrophysiological discoveries can be regarded as milestones in the development of our knowledge of nerve physiology. In the middle of the last century, long before had bequeathed…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Theorell, Head of the Biochemical Nobel Department of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The teaching body of the Caroline Institute has decided to award one half of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori «for their discovery…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Bergstrand, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Yellow fever is one of many diseases spread by insects which have been and to some extent still are a scourge in certain tropical and subtropical countries. We do not know when…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The heart is the sun of the microcosm formed by the human body, as stated already by William Harvey in his monumental treatise on the circulation of the blood. Its…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To maa man vaere hvis livet skal lykkes, «There must be two if life shall succeed», is the theme of a sentimental old Danish song. The author had in mind man and woman, but…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Jan- Erik Edström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concerns the fine structure and the function of the cell, a subject designated Cell Biology. There are no earlier Prize Winners in this field,…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Torgny Greitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Neither of this year’s laureates in physiology or medicine is a medical doctor. Nevertheless, they have achieved a revolution in the field of medicine. It is sometimes said that this new X-ray method…