Nobel Prize

  Presentation Speech by Professor C. Sundberg, Vice-Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1913 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for the year 1913 for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded by the Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, to…

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Wernstedt, Dean of the , December 10, 1927 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Few diseases have the power of inspiring fear to the same degree as cancer. However, who would be surprised at that? How many times is this affliction not synonymous with a long, painful and…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1929 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. That the fruits of civilization are not solely beneficial is shown by, inter alia, the history of the art of medicine. Not a few illnesses and diseases follow…

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 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 F. Henschen, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1933 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Honourable Audience. As long as human beings have existed they will have observed children’s resemblance to their parents, the resemblance or non-resemblance of brothers and sisters, and the appearance of characteristic qualities…

Presentation Speech by Professor I. Holmgren, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1934 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Caroline Institute has awarded this year’s prize for Physiology or Medicine to three American investigators, viz. Professor George Minot, of the Harvard Medical School (Boston), Dr. William…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Häggquist, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1935 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. When the Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute decided that Professor Hans Spemann should be considered pre-eminently for this year’s Nobel Prize it was the first time…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, pursuant to the task devolving upon them by the terms of the will of Alfred Nobel, have awarded the Prize…

The following account of Heymans’s work is by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the For over a century now it has been known that respiration in vertebrates including man is regulated from a small area in the medulla, known as the respiratory centre. From this centre nervous impulses of variable…