Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1974 The Coming Age of the Cell Inventory of living mechanisms by cell fractionation, biochemistry and electron microscopy, and a view of the impact of the findings on our status and thinking. Fifty years of cell research can hardly be summarized in the twenty to thirty minutes of a lecture; to…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture Antineuritic Vitamin and Beriberi Beriberi is a disease prevalent, epidemically, in tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Asia, where rice is the staple food of the natives; it is found elsewhere among sago-eating peoples (Molucca Islands), as well as in South America, in places where rice or cassava meal is the staple diet,…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1929 The Earlier History of Vitamin Research When the present century began, animal nutrition was being viewed too exclusively from the standpoint of energy requirements. The fundamental pioneer work of Rubner and its later extension to human subjects in the remarkable enterprise of Atwater, Benedict, Rosa, and others in the United…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, March 17, 1975   The Equality Issue in World Development My first impulse, when brooding over what topic I should choose for this lecture, was that I should turn toward some specific problem, selected from the field where I am at present working. But then I felt that…

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