Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In one of his scientific papers von Békésy describes that on board a ship he became interested in how the fog horn was made, since he had been struck by the fact that…

English 2011-10-03 has today decided that The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 shall be divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its…

Swedish 6 oktober 2008 har beslutat att tilldela Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2008 med ena hälften till Harald zur Hausen för hans upptäckt av “humana papillomvirus som orsakar livmoderhalscancer” och den andra hälften gemensamt till Françoise Barré-Sinoussi och Luc Montagnier för deras upptäckt av “humant immunbristvirus” Sammanfattning Årets nobelpristagare belönas för upptäckter av…

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Alexis Carrel was born at Lyons, France, on June 28, 1873. He was the son of a business man, also named Alexis Carrel, who died when his son was very young. Alexis was educated at home by his mother Anne Ricard, and also at St. Joseph School, Lyons. In 1889 he took the degree of…

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Presentation Speech by Professor T. Caspersson, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. That children resemble their parents, that striking features in both domestic animals and cultivated plants are transmitted from one generation to another, or in short, the circumstance that characteristics descend from generation to generation,…