Nobel Prize

John Franklin Enders was born on February 10th, 1897, at West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. He is the son of John Ostrom Enders, a banker in Hartford, and Harriet Goulden Enders (née Whitmore). Enders was educated at the Noah Webster School at Hartford and St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Finishing school in 1915, he…

Presentation Speech by Professor S. Gard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The principles of cultivation of bacteria were laid down in the late 1870’s by . Since that time the bacteriologists could study systematically the diseases caused by bacteria, isolate the causative agents in…

Linus Carl Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on 28th February, 1901, the son of a druggist, Herman Henry William Pauling, who, though born in Missouri, was of German descent, and his wife, Lucy Isabelle Darling, born in Oregon of English-Scottish ancestry. Linus attended the public elementary and high schools in the town of Condon…

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Linus Pauling worked in a broad range of areas within chemistry. In 1951 he published the structure of the alpha helix, which is an important basic component of many proteins.

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Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the In our modern age, American authors have set their stamp more and more strongly on the general physiognomy of literature. Our generation in particular has, during the last few decades, seen a reorientation of literary interest which implies not only a temporary change in the market…

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by…

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