Nobel Prize

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1953 The Citric Acid Cycle Pdf 88 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1953 Development of the Acetylation Problem: A Personal Account Pdf 324 kB

Nobel Lecture December 12, 1952 Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization Pdf 207 kB

Selman A. Waksman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1952 Your Majesties, your Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to the faculty of the Caroline Institute for having conferred upon me this great honor. In honoring me, you are honoring the…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 The Development of Vaccines against Yellow Fever The study of yellow fever may be divided into two periods. The first one occurred at the turn of the century when Walter Reed and his co-workers showed by the use of human volunteers that the causative agent of this disease was a…

Max Theiler’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1951 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To have been considered worthy of receiving the Nobel Prize – the highest honor that any scientist can receive – gives me a feeling of great personal satisfaction. Such tangible evidence that my work has…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, December 10, 1949, the speech was held by Mr. Patricio, chargé d’affaires of the Legation of Portugal (in French) Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames, Messieurs, J’ai l’honneur d’adresser au Collège des Professeurs de l’Institut Carolin les remerciements les…

No Lecture was delivered by Professor E. Moniz.

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1949 The Central Control of the Activity of Internal Organs A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken…

Walter Hess’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1949 (in German) Wenn ich so sprechen wollte, wie es mir jetzt ums Herz ist, so käme ich in einige Verlegenheit; denn die Gefühle, die mich bewegen, sind von so ursprünglicher Kraft und Freude, wie man sie eigentlich nur in den Jugendjahren zu erleben…