Nobel Prize

In regard to Dam’s and Doisy’s works, Professor A. Lichtenstein, Member of the Staff of Professors of the , made the following statement The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded this year for theoretically and practically important discoveries regarding the clotting or coagulation of the blood. The Danish investigator Henrik Dam received…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Wallgren, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Shortly after the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by in 1882 a search was made for an effective therapeutic agent against this germ. Eight years later Koch announced that he had succeeded in…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of the Karolinska Institutet has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Professor Hans Adolf Krebs and Professor Fritz Lipmann. This is an acknowledgement of fast and significant…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Engström, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Audience. An attempt to explain the significance of the discovery which has led to this year’s Nobel Prize award in Physiology or Medicine could begin at a point which seems to be far from the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concerns the basic processes underlying the nervous mechanisms of control and the communication between nerve cells. When physiologists, in the manner of…

  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…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Gard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Immunebodies or antibodies is the designation of a group of proteins in the blood, that play an important part in the defense against infections and in the development of many different diseases. Their perhaps most…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Börje Cronholm of the Karolinska Medico-Chirurgical Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Animal behavior has fascinated man since time immemorial as can be witnessed by the important role of animals in myths, fairy-tales and fables. However, for too long man has tried…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Rolf Luft of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The word “hormones” and associated terms have always stimulated our fantasy. The mystery in connection with hormones has been, from the beginning, equally overwhelming to the researcher and the layman. It is easy…

  Presentation Speech by Professor David Ottoson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One day in October 1649, René Descartes, the French philosopher and mathematician acknowledged as the greatest brain researcher of the period, arrived in Stockholm at the pressing invitation of Queen Christina. It was…