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  Presentation Speech by Professor Torgny Greitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Neither of this year’s laureates in physiology or medicine is a medical doctor. Nevertheless, they have achieved a revolution in the field of medicine. It is sometimes said that this new X-ray method…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 11 October 1979 has decided today to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1979 jointly to Allan M Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield for the “development of computer assisted tomography”. An X-ray examination usually implies the passage of X-rays through an organ…

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15 October 1979 has decided to award the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Herbert C Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA and Professor Georg Wittig, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis. Nobel…

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Ttranslation from the German text Born in Berlin in 1897. Doctorate and University Teaching Thesis in Marburg/Lahn from the Faculty of Chemistry. Head of Department at Braunschweig (Technical College) from 1932; Associate Professor at Freiburg/Brsg. from 1937; Professor and Faculty Director at the Institute of Chemistry, Tübingen, from 1944; turned down the same position as…