Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 Credits and References for the 2003 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Bo Angelin – Medicine, Chair of the Nobel Committee Bertil Hamberger – Surgery Martin Ingvar – Cognitive Neurophysiology Hans Jörnvall -…
moreDickinson W. Richards – Biographical
Biographical
Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. was born on October 30, 1895, in Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is the son of Dickinson W. Richards, a New York lawyer and Sally Lambert, whose father and three of her brothers practised medicine in New York. He was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, and, in 1913, went…
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Speed read: Making Model Mice
Speed read
The elevation of the humble mouse to become many scientists’ experimental animal of choice has been one of the scientific phenomena of the last two decades. Today, genetically-altered mice are an essential component of the experimental toolkit, with thousands of varieties contributing to research in laboratories around the world. Their existence stems from discoveries made…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their discoveries concerning “magnetic resonance imaging”. These…
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