Nobel Prize

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973 jointly to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen for their discoveries concerning “organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”. During the first decades of this century research concerning animal behaviour was on its way to be…

I was born on 20 November 1886 in Vienna, the son of university professor Anton Ritter von Frisch and his wife Marie, née Exner. I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied…

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I was born in The Hague, Netherlands, on 15th April 1907, the third of five children of Dirk C. Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. We were a happy and harmonious family. My mother was a warm, impulsive person; my father – a grammar school master in Dutch language and history – was devoted to his…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Börje Cronholm of the Karolinska Medico-Chirurgical Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Animal behavior has fascinated man since time immemorial as can be witnessed by the important role of animals in myths, fairy-tales and fables. However, for too long man has tried…

23 October 1973 has decided to award the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry half each to: Professor Ernst Otto Fischer, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany and Professor Geoffrey Wilkinson, Imperial College, London, Great Britain for their pioneering work performed independently on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds. “Chemistry…

Translation from the German text I was born in Solln, near Munich, on 10 November 1918 as the third child of the Professor of Physics at the Technical College of Munich, Dr. Karl T. Fischer (died 1953), and his wife, Valentine, née Danzer (died 1935). After completing four years at elementary school I went on…

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