NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 10 October 1980 has decided today to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1980 jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George Snell for their discoveries concerning “genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”. Summary The surface of…

My mother and father each came from simple country backgrounds, but both showed an early inclination for scholarly pursuits. They eventually met as school teachers in a local Panama City, Florida high school and were married in 1929. The following year, my father was appointed Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Florida at…

Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended Loudoun Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years in a shipping office before entering St. Mary’s Medical School, London University. He qualified with distinction…

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Your majesties, your royal highnesses, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of my colleagues Jim Rothman and Tom Südhof, I am deeply honored and humbled by the recognition you have bestowed on us today. I view this occasion as one of the great moments of my life, one that I am thrilled to…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Juleen Zierath, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2013 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses,…