Nobel Prize

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…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1927 Investigations on Spiroptera Carcinoma and the Experimental Induction of Cancer Pdf 1.17 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1925 The String Galvanometer and the Measurement of the Action Currents of the Heart Pdf 510 kB

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…

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…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1923 The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction In investigating the mechanism involved in the activity of striated muscle two points must be borne in mind, firstly, that the mechanism, whatever it be, exists separately inside each individual fibre, and secondly, that this fibre is in principle an isothermal machine, i.e. working practically…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1923 Energy Conversions in Muscle Pdf 52 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1920 A Contribution to the Physiology of the Capillaries At the beginning of the 17th century, Harvey succeeded in demonstrating that the blood within an organism was in constant circulation, passing out from the heart, through the arteries, to all the various organs, and returning through the veins. About 50 years…

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Nobel Lecture, September 11, 1916 (pdf) Some New Methods for Functional Testing of the Vestibular Apparatus and the Cerebellum Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me great pleasure to be giving the Nobel Lecture before you. In it I shall be reporting on the results of my research for which the Royal – permit me here…