Nobel Prize

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…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1913 Anaphylaxis It is not without emotion that I address this assembly on the experiments that have brought me, through the most gracious favour of the , the highest reward that a scientist has the right to hope for. I ask your indulgence in speaking of my own research, as I…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1912 Suture of Blood-Vessels and Transplantation of Organs The idea of replacing diseased organs by sound ones, of putting back an amputated limb or even of grafting a new limb on to a patient who has undergone an amputation, is far from being original. Many surgeons before me have had this…

Nobel Lecture December 11, 1911 How I Found the Mechanism of Intracapsular Accomodation Pdf 65 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1910 The Chemical Composition of the Cell Nucleus The development of organic chemistry in the past century has been based chiefly on the building up of concepts as to the arrangement of the atoms in space. As you well know, the organic chemist is able to present both this knowledge of…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909 Concerning Pathological Manifestations in Low-Grade Thyroid Diseases Pdf 371 kB