Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, How does a cancercell arise? What distinguishes it from a normal cell? Cancercells are social misfits, outside the control of the organism. The capacity for unlimited growth is inherited from generation to generation. The…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Erling Norrby of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, An occasional encounter with infectious agents is part of our daily life. The smallest among these infectious agents are called viruses. In spite of their small size viruses may cause many different types…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Pernow of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, taught us that good health requires the four humors – blood from the heart, phlegm from the brain, and the yellow and black bile from the liver and…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Hans Wigzell of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is typical for the human mind that little thought goes to the functions of our body when we are healthy, yet acute interest frequently develops in times of disease. The immune system…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Daneholt of the Nobel Assembly of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Why do children resemble their parents? This question has probably always fascinated humans, but not until the advent of natural science have we arrived at an increasingly satisfactory answer.…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil B. Fredholm of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is not very strange that a car, a television set or some other complex device sometimes stops working. No, the extraordinary thing is that these…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sten Lindahl of the at the Karolinska Institutet, December 10, 1998. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Sten Lindahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Robert Furchgott,…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Klareskog of the Nobel Committee at the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel are receiving their Prizes for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defense, or to be more precise – they discovered…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Jan Andersson, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2008 Professor Jan Andersson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary of the and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2011 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, We live in a dangerous world. During the hour you spend here in the Concert Hall, you will be exchanging millions…