I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. Now that I find myself in the surprising situation of having to write my own biography, and thus to reflect on my career, I find the same…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobel Web Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF). His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical…

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Prizes related to the 2008 Medicine Prize In 2008, Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of viruses linked to diseases. Find out here about previous Nobel Prizes relevant to their work. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 Peyton Rous “for his discovery…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1986 jointly to Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini for their discoveries of “growth factors”. Summary The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded for discoveries which are of fundamental importance for…

I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to America in the early 1900’s. My father was a tailor and my mother, a housewife. Though of limited education themselves, they instilled in me the values of intellectual achievement and the use of whatever talents I…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kerstin Hall of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, We have all been small infants who have grown tall. It is growth hormone, released from the pituitary gland, which regulates growth after birth. Lack of this hormone during infancy results in growth…

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