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Robert Sanderson Mulliken was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on June 7, 1896, the son of Samuel Parsons Mulliken, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Katherine W. Mulliken. He married Mary Helen von Noè, December 24, 1929. Their children are Lucia Maria (Mrs. John P. Heard) and Valerie Noè. Mulliken took a B.Sc. Degree in 1917 at…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Peyton Rous was born in Baltimore in 1879. His mother’s ancestors were Huguenots who settled in Virginia after the Edict of Nantes. Just before the Civil War in the 1860’s her father, foreseeing disaster, bought land in Texas, moving his big family there after it ended. There he became a judge «riding three counties», and…

Charles Brenton Huggins was born on September 22nd, 1901, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the elder son of Charles Edward Huggins, pharmacist, and his wife, Bessie Maria Spencer. Charles B. Huggins attended the public schools in Halifax; Acadia University (B.A., 1920), Wolfville, N.S.; and Harvard University (M.D., 1924), Boston, Massachusetts. He then interned at the University…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Klein, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The year was 1910. Only recently had it been understood that every cell of the body has been derived from another cell by division and that cancer cells…