Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Rosalyn Yalow’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1977 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies, Gentlemen and you, the Students, who are the carriers of our hopes for the survival of the world and our dreams for its future. Tradition has ordained that one of the Laureates represent all of us in responding to…

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Banquet speech

Baruch S. Blumberg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: My colleague and friend, Carleton Gajdusek, and I wish to thank the Nobel Committee for their gracious and generous hospitality. We have a special debt for I believe the size of our respective parties has established…

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Banquet speech

D. Carleton Gajdusek’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Specifically, Fellow Students! – if I may be granted by you the privilege of calling myself and the other Prize Winners and Prize Givers students, like yourselves! Yet, I warn you that if you do…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 From the Molecular Biology of Oncogenic DNA Viruses to Cancer Oncogenic viruses, able to elicit tumour formation in animals, have been on the scientific scene for many years. After the early discovery of Ellerman and Bang at the beginning of this century, opened up the field in its second decade…

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