Physiology or Medicine

Biographical

Dr. Lewis received the B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and the Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1942. He served to the rank of captain in the United States Army Air Force from 1942-1945 as a meteorologist and oceanographer in the Pacific Theater. He joined the Caltech faculty in…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1905 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of the Royal Caroline Institute takes great pleasure in giving this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine to the man who takes precedence among those now alive as a pioneer…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Engström, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Audience. An attempt to explain the significance of the discovery which has led to this year’s Nobel Prize award in Physiology or Medicine could begin at a point which seems to be far from the…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Gahrton of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During the 19th century, the association between disease symptoms and organ damage was well understood. Trouble with urine could be caused by damage of the kidney, and if the skin was yellow the…

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Contents:    These pages are based on material from the 1999 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Poster.

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