Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor F. Henschen, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1928 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In awarding the 1928 Nobel Prize for Medicine to Dr. Charles Nicolle, Director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis, the Caroline Institute wished to pay tribute to a…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Theorell, Head of the Biochemical Nobel Department of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The teaching body of the Caroline Institute has decided to award one half of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori «for their discovery…

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Press release

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 11 October 1979 has decided today to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1979 jointly to Allan M Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield for the “development of computer assisted tomography”. An X-ray examination usually implies the passage of X-rays through an organ…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sten Grillner of the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our cells constitute the small working units of the body. Each organ consists of a bewildering number of cells. The nervous system alone has a larger number of nerve cells than…

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Award ceremony speech

English Presentation Speech by Professor Christer Betsholtz, Member of the , 10 December 2007. Professor Christer Betsholtz delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards discoveries…

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