Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

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,…

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Nobel Prize lecture

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…

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