1947
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee The has awarded this year’s Peace Prize to the Quakers, represented by their two great relief organizations, the Friends Service Council in London and the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. It is now three hundred years since George Fox established the Society of…
moreCarl Cori – Biographical
Biographical
Carl Ferdinand Cori was born in Prague on December 5th, 1896. His father, Dr. Carl I. Cori, was Director of the Marine Biological Station in Trieste, and it was here that young Carl spent his childhood. He received an early introduction to science from his father and this was stimulated on summer visits to the…
moreGerty Cori – Biographical
Biographical
Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, was born in Prague on August 15th, 1896. She received her primary education at home before entering a Lyceum for girls in 1906; she graduated in 1912 and studied for the University entrance examination, which she took and passed at the Tetschen Realgymnasium in 1914. She entered the Medical School…
moreBernardo Houssay – Biographical
Biographical
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 10, 1887, one of the eight children of Dr. Albert and Clara (née Laffont) Houssay, who had come to Argentina from France. His father was a barrister. His early education was at a private school, the Colegio Británico. He then entered the School of…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H. Theorell, Head of the Biochemical Nobel Department of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The teaching body of the Caroline Institute has decided to award one half of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori «for their discovery…
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