Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize lecture

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,…

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Nobel Prize lecture

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…

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Curriculum Vitae

Sir Paul M. Nurse, born January 25, 1949 Address: Address: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, P.O. Box 123, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK   Academic Education and Appointments 1970 B.sc., University of Birmingham 1973 Ph.D., University of East Anglia 1996- Director-General, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, Head of Cell Cycle Laboratory   Selected Honours…

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