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  The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1998 to Robert F Furchgott, Louis J Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their discoveries concerning “the nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”. Robert F Furchgott, born 1916 Dept. of Pharmacology,…

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My father, Jabir Murat Ejupi, was born in Albania in 1892 and was the oldest of four children. His mother died when he was 13 years old. He and his family were shepherds and he subsequently ran away from home to sell candy in the Balkan countries as a teenager for several years. Although he…

Har Gobind Khorana was born of Hindu parents in Raipur, a little village in Punjab, which is now part of eastern Pakistan. The correct date of his birth is not known; that shown in documents is January 9th, 1922. He is the youngest of a family of one daughter and four sons. His father was…

Name: Georges Jean Franz Köhler Born: 17.4.1946 in München. German Nationality Education and research experience April 1965Abitur in Kehl, beginning of studies in Biology at the University of Freiburg.January 1971Diploma in Biology, work on repair-deficient strains of Escherichia coli and computer assisted instruction.April 1974Ph.D., University of Freiburg. Thesis work on immunological studies of the enzyme…

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Presentation Speech by Professor C. Sundberg, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1907 The Staff of Professors at the Caroline Institute have this year awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Dr. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, for his work on the importance of the protozoa as pathogens. The Staff…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 7 October 1996 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1996 jointly to Peter C Doherty and Rolf M Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning “the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”. Summary Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel have…