The Nobel Prize laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in the case of the peace prize, in Oslo on 10 December.
Videos of Nobel Prize lectures in physiology or medicine
2021
From peppers to peppermints: insights into thermosensation and pain
Nobel Prize lecture by David Julius
How do you feel? The molecules that sense touch
Nobel Prize lecture by Ardem Patapoutian
2020
Nobel Prize lecture by Harvey J. Alter
Nobel Prize lecture by Michael Houghton
Nobel Prize lecture by Charles M. Rice
2019
The von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein: Insights into Oxygen Sensing
Nobel Prize lecture by William G. Kaelin Jr
Elucidation of Oxygen Sensing Systems in Human and Animal Cells
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe
Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Physiology and Medicine
Nobel Prize lecture by Gregg L. Semenza
2018
Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New insights, opportunities, and prospects for cures
Nobel Prize lecture by James P. Allison
Serendipities of acquired immunity
Nobel Prize lecture by Tasuku Honjo
2017
The Little Flies: Multifaceted Basic Research Coming Out Better than Intended
Nobel Prize lecture by Jeffrey C. Hall
The Circadian Clock, Transcriptional Feedback and the Regulation of Gene Expression
Nobel Prize lecture by Michael Rosbash
Time Travels: A 40 Year Journey from Drosophila’s Clock Mutants to Human Circadian Disorders
Nobel Prize lecture by Michael W. Young
2016
Autophagy – an Intracellular Recycling System
Nobel Prize lecture by Yoshinori Ohsumi
2015
Ivermectin: A Reflection on Simplicity
Nobel Prize lecture by William C. Campbell
A Splendid Gift from the Earth: The Origins & Impact of Avermectin
Nobel Prize lecture by Satoshi Ōmura
Discovery of Artemisinin – A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World
Nobel Prize lecture by Youyou Tu
2014
Spatial Cells in the Hippocampal Formation
Nobel Prize lecture by John O’Keefe
Grid Cells, Place Cells and Memory
Nobel Prize lecture by May-Britt Moser
Grid Cells and the Enthorinal Map of Space
Nobel Prize lecture by Edvard I. Moser
2013
The Principle of Membrane Fusion in the Cell
Nobel Prize lecture by James E. Rothman
Genetic and Biochemical Dissection of the Secretory Pathway
Nobel Prize lecture by Randy W. Schekman
A Molecular Machine for Neurotransmitter Release
Nobel Prize lecture by Thomas C. Südhof
2012
The Egg and the Nucleus: A Battle for Supremacy
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir John B. Gurdon
A Winding Road to Pluripotency
Nobel Prize lecture by Shinya Yamanaka
2011
How Mammals Sense Infection: From Endotoxin to the Toll-like Receptors
Nobel Prize lecture by Bruce A. Beutler
Evolutionary Perspectives of Innate Immunity: Studies with Drosophila
Nobel Prize lecture by Jules A. Hoffmann
Ralph Steinman and the Discovery of Dendritic Cells
Nobel Prize lecture for Ralph M. Steinman
2010
Nobel Prize Symposium in Honour of Robert G. Edwards: Bob Edwards and IVF: The Early Days
Nobel Symposium
2009
Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End
Nobel Prize lecture by Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Telomerase Discovery: The Excitement of Putting Together Pieces of the Puzzle
Nobel Prize lecture by Carol W. Greider
DNA Ends: Just the Beginning
Nobel Prize lecture by Jack W. Szostak
2008
The Search for Infectious Causes of Human Cancers: Where and Why?
Nobel Prize lecture by Harald zur Hausen
HIV: a Discovery Opening the Road to Novel Scientific Achievements and Global Health Improvement
Nobel Prize lecture by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
25 Years of Research on AIDS – Lessons and Prospects for Cure and Vaccine
Nobel Prize lecture by Luc Montagnier
2007
Gene Targeting in the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Psychiatric Disorders
Nobel Prize lecture by Mario R. Capecchi
ES Cells: The Mouse Source – Vehicle for Mammalian Experimental Genetics
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir Martin J. Evans
Turning Pages
Nobel Prize lecture by Oliver Smithies
2006
Gene Silencing by Double Stranded RNA
Nobel Prize lecture by Andrew Z. Fire
Return to the RNAi World: Rethinking Gene Expression and Evolution
Nobel Prize lecture by Craig C. Mello
2005
Helicobacter Connections
Nobel Prize lecture by Barry J. Marshall
Helicobacter – The Ease and Difficulty of a New Discovery
Nobel Prize lecture by J. Robin Warren
2004
Scents and Sensibility: A Molecular Logic of Olfactory Perception
Nobel Prize lecture by Richard Axel
Unraveling the Sense of Smell
Nobel Prize lecture by Linda B. Buck
2003
All Science is Interdisciplinary – from Magnetic Moments to Molecules to Men
Nobel Prize lecture by Paul C. Lauterbur
Snap-Shot MRI
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir Peter Mansfield
2002
Nature’s Gift to Science
Nobel Prize lecture by Sydney Brenner
Worms, Life and Death
Nobel Prize lecture by H. Robert Horvitz
C. elegans: The Cell Lineage and Beyond
Nobel Prize lecture by John E. Sulston
2001
Yeast and Cancer
Nobel Prize lecture by Leland H. Hartwell
Protein Synthesis, Proteolysis, and Cell Cycle Transitions
Nobel Prize lecture by Tim Hunt
Controlling the Cell Cycle
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir Paul Nurse
2000
A Half-Century of Neurotransmitter Research: Impact on Neurology and Psychiatry
Nobel Prize lecture by Arvid Carlsson
The Neurobiology of Dopamine Signaling
Nobel Prize lecture by Paul Greengard
The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialog between Genes and Synapses
Nobel Prize lecture by Eric R. Kandel
1999
Protein Targeting
Nobel Prize lecture by Günter Blobel
1998
Endothelium-Derived Relaxing Factor: Discovery, Early Studies, and Identification as Nitric Oxide
Nobel Prize lecture by Robert F. Furchgott
Nitric Oxide: A Unique Endogenous Signaling Molecule in Vascular Biology
Nobel Prize lecture by Louis J. Ignarro
Discovery of Some of the Biological Effects of Nitric Oxide and Its Role in Cell Signaling
Nobel Prize lecture by Ferid Murad
1997
Prions
Nobel Prize lecture by Stanley B. Prusiner
1996
Cell Mediated Immunity in Virus Infections
Nobel Prize lecture by Peter C. Doherty
Cellular Immune Recognition and the Biological Role of Major Transplantation Antigens
Nobel Prize lecture by Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1995
The Bithorax Complex: The First Fifty Years
Nobel Prize lecture by Edward B. Lewis
The Identification of Genes Controlling Development in Flies and Fishes
Nobel Prize lecture by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
From Molecular Patterns to Morphogenesis: The Lessons from Drosophila
Nobel Prize lecture by Eric F. Wieschaus
1994
G Proteins and Regulation of Adenylyl Cyclase
Nobel Prize lecture by Alfred G. Gilman
Signal Transduction: Evolution of an Idea
Nobel Prize lecture by Martin Rodbell
1993
An Amazing Distortion in DNA Induced by a Methyltransferase
Nobel Prize lecture by Richard J. Roberts
Split Genes and RNA Splicing
Nobel Prize lecture by Phillip A. Sharp
1992
Protein Phosphorylation and Cellular Regulation, II
Nobel Prize lecture by Edmond H. Fischer
Protein Phosphorylation and Cellular Regulation, I
Nobel Prize lecture by Edwin G. Krebs
1991
Ion Channels for Communication Between and Within Cells
Nobel Prize lecture by Erwin Neher
Elementary Steps in Synaptic Transmission Revealed by Currents through Single Ion Channels
Nobel Prize lecture by Bert Sakmann
1990
The First Successful Organ Transplants in Man
Nobel Prize lecture by Joseph E. Murray
Bone Marrow Transplantation – Past, Present and Future
Nobel Prize lecture by E. Donnall Thomas
1989
Retroviruses and Oncogenes II
Nobel Prize lecture by J. Michael Bishop
Retroviruses and Oncogenes I
Nobel Prize lecture by Harold E. Varmus
1988
Drugs from Emasculated Hormones: The Principles of Syntopic Antagonism
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir James W. Black
The Purine Path to Chemotherapy
Nobel Prize lecture by Gertrude B. Elion
Selective Inhibitors of Dihydrofolate Reductase
Nobel Prize lecture by George H. Hitchings
1987
Somatic Generation of Immune Diversity
Nobel Prize lecture by Susumu Tonegawa
1986
Epidermal Growth Factor
Nobel Prize lecture by Stanley Cohen
The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
Nobel Prize lecture by Rita Levi-Montalcini
1985
A Receptor-Mediated Pathway for Cholesterol Homeostasis
Nobel Prize lecture by Michael S. Brown
A Receptor-Mediated Pathway for Cholesterol Homeostasis
Nobel Prize lecture by Joseph L. Goldstein
1984
The Generative Grammar of the Immune System
Nobel Prize lecture by Niels K. Jerne
Derivation and Diversification of Monoclonal Antibodies
Nobel Prize lecture by Georges J.F. Köhler
From the Structure of Antibodies to the Diversification of the Immune Response
Nobel Prize lecture by César Milstein
1983
The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
Nobel Prize lecture by Barbara McClintock
1982
The Prostaglandins: From the Laboratory to the Clinic
Nobel Prize lecture by Sune K. Bergström
From Studies of Biochemical Mechanisms to Novel Biological Mediators: Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Thromboxanes and Leukotrienes
Nobel Prize lecture by Bengt I. Samuelsson
Adventures and Excursions in Bioassay: The Stepping Stones to Prostacyclin
Nobel Prize lecture by John R. Vane
1981
Some Effects of Disconnecting the Cerebral Hemispheres
Nobel Prize lecture by Roger W. Sperry
Evolution of Ideas on the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955-1978: A Biased Historical Account
Nobel Prize lecture by David H. Hubel
The Postnatal Development of the Visual Cortex and the Influence of Environment
Nobel Prize lecture by Torsten N. Wiesel
1980
The Role of MHC Gene Products in Immune Regulation and Its Relevance to Alloreactivity
Nobel Prize lecture by Baruj Benacerraf
The Major Histocompatibility Complex in Man – Past, Present, and Future Concepts
Nobel Prize lecture by Jean Dausset
Studies in Histocompatibility
Nobel Prize lecture by George D. Snell
1979
Early Two-Dimensional Reconstruction and Recent Topics Stemming from It
Nobel Prize lecture by Allan M. Cormack
Computed Medical Imaging
Nobel Prize lecture by Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1973
Decoding the Language of the Bee
Nobel Prize lecture by Karl von Frisch
Analogy as a Source of Knowledge
Nobel Prize lecture by Konrad Lorenz
Ethology and Stress Diseases
Nobel Prize lecture by Nikolaas Tinbergen
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