Nobel Prize

has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1983 to Lech Wałęsa. In reaching this decision the Committee has taken into account Wałęsa’s contribution, made with considerable personal sacrifice, to ensure the workers’ right to establish their own organisations. This contribution is of vital importance in the wider campaign to secure the universal freedom to organise…

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Presentation Speech delivered by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1983, Oslo, December 10, 1983. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the…

In the fall of 1921 I attended the only course in genetics open to undergraduate students at Cornell University. It was conducted by C. B. Hutchison, then a professor in the Department of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, who soon left Cornell to become Chancellor of the University of California at Davis, California. Relatively few…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Nils Ringertz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1983 recognizes a great discovery about the organization of genes on chromosomes and how these genes, by changing places, can alter their function. This discovery,…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1983 to Barbara McClintock for her discovery of “mobile genetic elements”. Summary Barbara McClintock discovered mobile genetic elements in plants more than 30 years ago. The discovery was made at a time…

In Memoriam – Barbara McClintock by Howard Green This article was published on 12 June 1999. To paraphrase George Orwell, every person is unique, but some are more unique than others. There has never been anyone like Barbara McClintock in this world, nor ever will be. She was not simply a representative of a type.…