Physiology or Medicine
Credits and References for the 2000 Nobel Poster for Physiology or Medicine
Scientific Advisors, Professors at Karolinska Institutet: Sten Grillner – Physiology Hans Jörnvall – Physiological Chemistry and Secretary of the Nobel Assembly Sten Lindahl – Anesthesiology Lars Olson – Neurobiology Ralf Pettersson – Molecular Biology Urban Ungerstedt – Neuropsychopharmacology Art Director: Urban Frank Micrographs: Ruud Ubink and Tomas Hökfelt Medical Writer: Anders Nystrand Printed by David…
moreJohn F. Enders – Biographical
Biographical
John Franklin Enders was born on February 10th, 1897, at West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. He is the son of John Ostrom Enders, a banker in Hartford, and Harriet Goulden Enders (née Whitmore). Enders was educated at the Noah Webster School at Hartford and St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Finishing school in 1915, he…
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Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. – Biographical
Biographical
Born: Burlingame, Kansas, November 19, 1915 Married: 1963 Children: 2 sons, 2 daughters Education B.S. Washburn College, 1937 M.D. Washington University, School of Medicine 1942, St. Louis Professional Experience Interneship, Barnes Hospital, 1942 Assistant in Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University 1940-42 Instructor in Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University 1945-46 Instructor…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor G. Fischer, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discovery of the insecticidal properties of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloromethylmethane, abbreviated as DDT, has a short and crowded history which, from the medical point of view, is closely connected with the fight against typhus during the last…
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