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…
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Award 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…
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…
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