Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 The Activity of the Nerve Fibres The sense organs respond to certain changes in their environment by sending messages or signals to the central nervous system. The signals travel rapidly over the long threads of protoplasm which form the sensory nerve fibres, and fresh signals are sent out by the…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture Investigations on Typhus I am going to give you an account of how I arrived at the results for which I have received the Nobel Prize for Medicine. I shall also summarize these results. It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. I was born, first studied…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1927 The Treatment of Dementia Paralytica by Malaria Inoculation Two paths could lead to a cure for progressive paralysis: the rational and the empirical. The rational path appeared to be practical, as since Esmarch and Jessen, in 1858, attention had been drawn to a connection between progressive paralysis and syphilis. If…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, September 15, 1925 Diabetes and Insulin Gentlemen. I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod. I am fully aware of the responsibility which rests upon me to deliver an address in which certain aspects of the…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, May 26, 1925 The Physiology of Insulin and Its Source in the Animal Body The knowledge that the isles of Langerhans of the pancreas have the function of secreting into the blood a hormone which plays an essential role in the regulation of the metabolism of the carbohydrates, is the outcome of numerous…

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