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Nobel Lecture December 12, 1952 Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization Pdf 207 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 The Development of Vaccines against Yellow Fever The study of yellow fever may be divided into two periods. The first one occurred at the turn of the century when Walter Reed and his co-workers showed by the use of human volunteers that the causative agent of this disease was a…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1949 The Central Control of the Activity of Internal Organs A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1948 Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane and Newer Insecticides Pdf 110 kB

Nobel Lecture December 11, 1947 Polysaccharide Phosphorylase Pdf 241 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1947 Polysaccharide Phosphorylase Pdf 241 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947 The Role of the Hypophysis in Carbohydrate Metabolism and in Diabetes The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates. – These are ingested with the food or produced by the liver, and after being converted into glucose they are utilized by all the cells of the organism,…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1946 The Production of Mutations If as Darwin maintained the adaptiveness of living things results from natural selection, rather than from a teleological tendency in the process of variation itself, then heritable variations must, under most conditions, occur in numerous directions, so as to give a wide range of choice for…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947 Some Observations on the Responses of Single Nerve Fibers Pdf 141 kB