Physiology or Medicine
Edward Tatum – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Edward Tatum’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my honor to speak for Professor Beadle and myself. It is fitting that we should speak as one, for in the investigations judged important by the Nobel Committee we worked as…
moreJoshua Lederberg – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Joshua Lederberg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1958 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Pride is humbled as humility is exalted in the dignity and splendor of this occasion. Who would deny his pride in the appreciation of his fellows and to join therein with George W.…
moreDaniel Bovet – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Daniel Bovet’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 (in French) Maestà, Signori Accademici, Eccellenze, Signore e Signori, E’ per me ragione di gioia profonda trovarmi nouvamente in Svezia, questo grande paese legato per tanti motivi all’Italia e con cui io stcsso ho così profondi vincoli di amicizia e, oggi, di riconoscenza.…
moreDaniel Bovet – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 The Relationships between Isosterism and Competitive Phenomena in the Field of Drug Therapy of the Autonomic Nervous System and that of the Neuromuscular Transmission Pdf 373 kB
moreWerner Forssmann – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 The Role of Heart Catheterization and Angiocardiography in the Development of Modern Medicine The ancient world and the Middle Ages had no idea of the existence of the circulation of the blood. It was not until the Late Renaissance that efforts were made to grasp this process anatomically and understand…
moreDickinson W. Richards – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 The Contributions of Right Heart Catheterization to Physiology and Medicine, with Some Observations on the Physiopathology of Pulmonary Heart Disease The study of the right heart in man has held a continuing place in the researches of Dr. Cournand and myself over the past twenty-five years, both under physiological…
moreAndré F. Cournand – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 Control of the Pulmonary Circulation in Man with Some Remarks on Methodology Pdf 110 kB
moreAndré F. Cournand – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
André F. Cournand’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1956 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The two laureates with whom I share the greatest honor in the field of medicine and physiology, have chosen me to express their feelings of gratitude in my own words. But if…
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