Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, was born in Prague on August 15th, 1896. She received her primary education at home before entering a Lyceum for girls in 1906; she graduated in 1912 and studied for the University entrance examination, which she took and passed at the Tetschen Realgymnasium in 1914. She entered the Medical School…

André Frédéric Cournand was born in Paris on 24th September, 1895, the second of the four children of Jules Cournand, a stomatologist, and his wife Marguérite Weber. He received his early education to secondary school level at the Lycée Condorcet, and obtained his bachelor’s degree at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne in 1913,…

  I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents’ house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London. “A fine strapping lad” was the news my grandfather received as Dr Mold came to the top of the…

Schack August Steenberg Krogh – A versatile genius by Jan Lindsten 2 April 2001 “The physiologist’s physiologist” In 1997, at the Sixteenth Nordic Congress of Medical History in Stockholm, Dr. Ole Munck – consultant at the Museum of Medical History in Copenhagen, concluded his presentation about with the following comment: “We are facing a versatile…

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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As you know, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the current year has been awarded to Allvar Gullstrand, Professor at the University of Uppsala, for his works concerning the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Georg Klein of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Even the longest journey starts with a single step, the old Chinese have said. The first step of the long journey that has led the three Laureates in Medicine to us tonight was…

Paul Lauterbur’s quest to develop a medical imaging tool that worked using magnetism succeeded through a mixture of accidental meetings, detours and dogged persistence. “All detours should be so productive!” cried at the end of his Nobel Lecture. Lauterbur found himself changing course from chemistry to medical imaging, but thanks to a series of unexpected…

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In the fall of 1921 I attended the only course in genetics open to undergraduate students at Cornell University. It was conducted by C. B. Hutchison, then a professor in the Department of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, who soon left Cornell to become Chancellor of the University of California at Davis, California. Relatively few…