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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Gard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Immunebodies or antibodies is the designation of a group of proteins in the blood, that play an important part in the defense against infections and in the development of many different diseases. Their perhaps most…

Rodney Robert Porter born 8 October 1917 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School taking his Hons.B.Sc. (Biochemistry) in 1939 at the University of Liverpool and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1948. After one year’s postdoctoral work at Cambridge, Professor Porter joined the scientific staff of the…

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KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1972 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1972 jointly to Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter for their discoveries concerning “the chemical structure of antibodies”. Antibodies is the collective name of a group of blood proteins that play an important part in the defense against…

Stanford Moore was born in 1913 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father was a member of the faculty of the School of Law of Vanderbilt University. His developmental years were in a home environment which made the pursuit of knowledge an eagerly adopted undertaking. He had the opportunity to…

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