Physiology or Medicine
Sir Alexander Fleming – Questions and answers
Questions and Answers
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. Question: Who were his…
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Ernst B. Chain – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Ernst B. Chain’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to express to you my deep gratitude for the very great honour conferred on me by the award of a Nobel prize which has come to be regarded universally as the…
moreOliver Smithies – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
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…
moreRoger Wolcott Sperry
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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…
moreRoger W. Sperry – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
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. Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1981 Some Effects of Disconnecting…
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