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…

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…

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Sir Charles Sherrington’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1932 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I rise in response to the kind toast given by Professor Gunnar Holmgren, and I esteem it a privilege to tender my thanks to him, in this company and in this City renowned for…

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 Inhibition as a Coordinative Factor That a muscle on irritation of its nerve contracts had already long been familiar to physiology when the 19th century found a nerve which when irritated prevented its muscle from contracting. This observation seemed for a time too strange to be believed. Its truth did…

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Sir Alexander Fleming’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 For many years I have read of people getting the Nobel Prize. Then I always regarded them as a superior class to which it was almost impossible to aspire. Now suddenly I find myself in that class and I wonder whether they…

Sir Howard Florey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should wish in the first place to thank most sincerely the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Physiology and Medicine for the very great honour you have conferred on me today. My colleagues…

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