Nobel Prize

George E. Palade’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the large domain of life sciences, Cell Biology is a field reborn. The last period in which it flourished was at the end of the last century, when light microscopes were brought up to the…

Christian de Duve’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Students, I hope I may still be allowed to use the term fellow students. For we know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society. On…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1974 The Coming Age of the Cell Inventory of living mechanisms by cell fractionation, biochemistry and electron microscopy, and a view of the impact of the findings on our status and thinking. Fifty years of cell research can hardly be summarized in the twenty to thirty minutes of a lecture; to…

Nobel Lecture Antineuritic Vitamin and Beriberi Beriberi is a disease prevalent, epidemically, in tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Asia, where rice is the staple food of the natives; it is found elsewhere among sago-eating peoples (Molucca Islands), as well as in South America, in places where rice or cassava meal is the staple diet,…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1929 The Earlier History of Vitamin Research When the present century began, animal nutrition was being viewed too exclusively from the standpoint of energy requirements. The fundamental pioneer work of Rubner and its later extension to human subjects in the remarkable enterprise of Atwater, Benedict, Rosa, and others in the United…

Sir Frederick Hopkins’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nobel Laureates are greatly privileged. Their privileges, I venture to say, begin with the invitation to Stockholm, and with the circumstances which meet them there. Stockholm takes care that a fitting stage is provided…

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