Max Theiler was born on January 30, 1899, in Pretoria, South Africa, one of the four children of Sir Arnold and Emma (née Jegge) Theiler. His father was a well-known veterinary scientist. He attended local schools except for one year in Basle, Switzerland (his father was of Swiss origin), then went on to Rhodes University…

Arthur Kornberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 and educated in its public schools. He received his undergraduate degree in science from the City College of New York in 1937 and the M.D. degree from the University of Rochester in 1941. After a year’s internship in internal medicine, he served as a commissioned…

Michael S. Brown was born on April 13, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest child of Harvey Brown, a textile salesman, and Evelyn Brown, a housewife. His sister Susan was born three years later. When Brown was 11 years old the family moved to Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where Brown attended…

Questions and answers After the 2007 Nobel Prize announcements, visitors to Nobelprize.org had the possibility to submit questions to the 2007 Nobel Laureates. Here, Sir Martin Evans answers a selection of the questions. Question: If you would sum up the most important characters of a scientist in three words, what would they be? Adam Kebede,…

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In regard to Erlanger’s and Gasser’s works, Professor , Head of the Department of Neurophysiology of the Nobel Institute of the , made the following statement. Three great electrophysiological discoveries can be regarded as milestones in the development of our knowledge of nerve physiology. In the middle of the last century, long before had bequeathed…

Presentation Speech by Professor Folke Sjöqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the discoveries of important principles for drug treatment which have been applied successfully to the treatment of a wide variety of serious illnesses. Sir James Black’s findings have made possible…