Physiology or Medicine

Biographical

My ancestors apparently emigrated from Europe in the middle of the 19th century; the Lauterburs probably from Luxembourg, and my mother’s people, Wagners and Weingartners, from Baden-Baden or nearby. They settled in northern Ohio, where my mother’s father, Hans Christian Wagner, married Margaret (Maggie) Weingartner. They lived in Tiffin, Ohio when I was a child,…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Johansson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1923 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The object of physiology is to endeavour to recognize in the vital processes well-known physical and chemical processes. Accordingly it has to give answers to…

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Press release

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1974 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1974 jointly to Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade for their discoveries concerning “the structural and functional organization of the cell”. The last 30 years have seen a new discipline, cell biology, appear and develop into…

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