1971

Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard, the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What applies to bacteria also applies to elephants. This free quotation after the French Nobel prize winner, , illustrates with some exaggeration one important principle of biology: that of the identity of the fundamental life processes. Yet one…

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Press release

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1971 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1971 to Earl Sutherland for his discoveries concerning “the mechanisms of the action of hormones”. Sutherland has started his investigations already some twenty years ago. In collaboration with the Nobel Laureate he studied the mechanism by which epinephrine regulates…

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Biographical

  Born: Burlingame, Kansas, November 19, 1915 Married: 1963 Children: 2 sons, 2 daughters   Education B.S. Washburn College, 1937 M.D. Washington University, School of Medicine 1942, St. Louis   Professional Experience Interneship, Barnes Hospital, 1942 Assistant in Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University 1940-42 Instructor in Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University 1945-46 Instructor…

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Biographical

Gerhard Herzberg was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 25 December, 1904. He was married in 1929 to Luise Herzberg neé Oettinger and has two children. He was widowed in 1971. Herzberg received his early training in Hamburg and subsequently studied physics at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology where in 1928 he obtained his Dr.Ing. degree…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, is generally considered to be the world’s foremost molecular spectroscopist and his large institute in Ottawa is the indisputed center for such research. It is…

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