Nobel Prize

No Lecture was delivered by Professor E. Moniz.

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1948 Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane and Newer Insecticides Pdf 110 kB

Paul Müller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1948 (in German) Königliche Hoheit, Meine Damen und Herren, Es ist mir ein Bedürfnis, Ihrem Lande und Ihnen im Namen meines Heimatlandes, der Schweiz, der Stadt Basel, wo ich aufgewachsen und jetzt tätig bin, meiner Firma, der J. R. Geigy A. G., Basel, meiner…

Bernardo Houssay’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1947 (in Spanish) Altezas Reales; Excelencias; Señoras y Señores: Mi más rendida gratitud porque Suecia honra hoy generosamente en mi persona a los que en la lejana América Latina están consagrados con fiel y abnegada devoción al cultivo de la investigación científica. Aunque alejados…

Nobel Lecture December 11, 1947 Polysaccharide Phosphorylase Pdf 241 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1947 Polysaccharide Phosphorylase Pdf 241 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947 The Role of the Hypophysis in Carbohydrate Metabolism and in Diabetes The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates. – These are ingested with the food or produced by the liver, and after being converted into glucose they are utilized by all the cells of the organism,…

Carl Cori’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1947 Your Royal Highnesses, your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. May I express my deep gratitude for the signal honor conferred upon me by the award of the Nobel Prize. To have thus been singled out among so many worthy scientists must evoke a feeling…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1946 The Production of Mutations If as Darwin maintained the adaptiveness of living things results from natural selection, rather than from a teleological tendency in the process of variation itself, then heritable variations must, under most conditions, occur in numerous directions, so as to give a wide range of choice for…