Question: When was Sir Alexander Fleming born? Answer: Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield Farm near Darvel, Scotland.   Question: When did he die? Answer: Fleming died of a heart attack on 11 March 1955 in London, United Kingdom. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at St Paul’s Cathedral.…

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The three of us (Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans and myself) thank the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Foundation for honoring us today. And we thank our students and collaborators, whose help was indispensable in our research. But we also…

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Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1981 Some Effects of Disconnecting the Cerebral Hemispheres Introduction: Classic View of Cerebral Dominance To start by looking back a little, recall that even a small brain lesion, if critically located in the left or language hemisphere, may selectively destroy a person’s ability to read, while at the same time sparing…

Lecture presentation Nobel Lecture NB. As Dr Sperry was disabled to give the lecture himself, it was read by Professor David Ottoson. Dr Sperry sat in the front row listening to the lecture and accepted the applause at the end.

Roger Wolcott Sperry by Norman H. Horowitz This article was published on 23 July 1997. Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913-1994) was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on a farm outside Hartford. He attended Hartford public schools. At West Hartford High School he was a star athlete in several sports, but he also did well…

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