Hugo Theorell
Photo gallery
1 (of 4) From left: Chemistry laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, physics laureates Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch, medicine laureate Hugo Theorell and literature laureate Halldór Laxness having a look at their diplomas after the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1955.
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2 (of 4) Nobel Laureate Hugo Theorell with an automatic Geiger-Müller counter for detecting radioactivity. The counter was constructed at Karolinska Institutet.
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3 (of 4) Nobel Laureate Hugo Theorell with the "home-made" magnetic weighing machine that was constructed at Karolinska Institutet.
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4 (of 4) Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. From left: Ulf von Euler, Hugo Theorell and Ragnar Granit.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.