Physiology or Medicine

Biographical

I was born on 9th October 1933 in Lambeth, London, the youngest of three brothers. I grew up in Camberwell, ten minutes walk from Camberwell Green, the epicentre of the Borough. My father, Sidney George Mansfield was the eldest son in a family of five sons and four daughters. My father worked for the South…

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Interview

Interview transcript [William Campbell] Hello. [Adam Smith] Oh, hello, my name is Adam Smith, I’m calling from Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Prize, in Stockholm. [WC] Yes. [AS] Have you heard the news? [WC] Yes. [AS] Where were you when you heard this news?…

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Curriculum Vitae

Linda B. Buck, born January 29, 1947, Seattle, WA, USA Address: Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, A3-020, P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA   Academic Education and Appointments 1975 B.S. Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 1975 B.S. Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle 1980 Ph.D. Immunology, University of…

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Banquet speech

George Wald’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Exellencies, Ladies, Gentlemen, and fellow students: A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn’t serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of…

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