Emil von Behring: The founder of serum therapy Based on an exhibition at Marburg Castlearranged and documented by Kornelia Grundmann This article was published on 3 December 2001. Upbringing and education (1854-1917) was born on March 15, 1854 in Hansdorf, West Prussia, as the first child of the couple August and Auguste Behring. His father…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1901 Serum Therapy in Therapeutics and Medical Science Serum therapy in the form in which it finds application in the treatment of diphtheria patients is an antitoxic or detoxicating curative method. It is based on the view, held by Löffler in Germany and by Roux in France, that the parasites causing…

Emil von Behring’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1901 (in German) Trotz seiner verhältnismässig geringen Einwohneranzahl hat Schweden auffallend wirksam in den Gang der Menschengeschichte und immer in solcher Weise eingegriffen, dass man den Eindruck des Gewaltigen davon tragen muss. Ich erinnere hier an die vorgeschichtlichen mythischen Gestalten, die in unseren…

Interview transcript Gunter Blobel, we would like to join all those who have congratulated to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine which you received two days ago here in Stockholm. We also know that you have had a very hectic week indeed, and we are therefore very grateful that you…

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Your Majesties, Members of the Nobel Assembly, Distinguished Guests, I am greatly honored having been selected this year’s Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine. I would like to thank my teachers for their guidance and my coworkers for their inspiration and hard work. This Nobel Prize in Medicine is the last one…

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Günter Blobel, born May 21, 1936 in Waltersdorf/Silesia, Germany Address: Laboratory of Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1230 York Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021, USA   Academic Education and Appointments 1967 PhD degree in Oncology with Dr. Van R Potter 1967-69 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Palade, The Rockefeller University 1969-73 Assistant…