Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Professor Erling Norrby of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Our body is composed of independent living entities, which we call cells. The number of cells in a single individual is about 1000 times larger than the number of all individuals on this…

Presentation Speech by Professor Urban Ungerstedt of the December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Urban Ungerstedt delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Göran K. Hansson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysiologi eller medicin, den 10 december 2006. Professor Göran K. Hansson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina Damer och Herrar, Vi lever i informationsflödets epok. Informationen flödar över oss…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The medical sciences are mutually interdependent. Progress in one field is often closely associated with development in others. The rise in one branch of science can often have its origin in…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Their research opens up the possibility to copy human beings in the laboratory, to construct geniuses, to massproduce workers, or to create criminals.” This is a quotation from the presentation on Swedish television…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Fischer, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discovery of the insecticidal properties of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloromethylmethane, abbreviated as DDT, has a short and crowded history which, from the medical point of view, is closely connected with the fight against typhus during the last…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1931 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discovery for which the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is to be awarded today concerns intracellular combustion: that fundamental vital process by which…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ralf Pettersson of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Ralf Pettersson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, Imagine a large factory that manufactures…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1932 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Within the domain of physiology and medicine probably few spheres will be calculated to attract to themselves attention to the same extent as the nervous system, that distributor…

  Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Light, shadows and colours do not exist in the world around us. What we perceive visually and call light is the result of the action of a certain portion of…