2000
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the , Oslo, December 10, 2000. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2000 to Kim Dae-jung. He receives the prize for his lifelong work for…
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Credits and References for the 2000 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine
Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Sten Grillner – Physiology Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry and Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology Lars Olson – Neurobiology Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Urban Ungerstedt – Neuropsychopharmacology Art Director: Urban Frank Micrographs: Ruud Ubink and Tomas Hökfelt Medical Writer: Anders Nystrand Printed by David…
moreArvid Carlsson – Biographical
Biographical
I grew up in an academic middle-class family. In 1926, when I was 3 years old, my father was appointed professor of history at the University of Lund, Sweden, and moved there with his family from Uppsala, Sweden. My mother had passed a master-of-arts examination and my father a Ph.D. degree at the University of…
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel for their discoveries concerning “signal transduction in the nervous system”. Carlsson discovered that dopamine is a transmitter, Greengard found that dopamine and other “slow” transmitters act by protein phosphorylation, and Kandel…
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