Physiology or Medicine
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Gard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Immunebodies or antibodies is the designation of a group of proteins in the blood, that play an important part in the defense against infections and in the development of many different diseases. Their perhaps most…
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Introduction
The organization of a cell can be compared to that of a big city such as New York. In order to reach its correct destination, a letter has to be provided with an address label and a zip code, similar to the address tags on proteins.
moreSelman A. Waksman – Biographical
Biographical
Selman Abraham Waksman was born in Priluka, near Kiev, Russia, on July 22nd, 1888, as the son of Jacob Waksman and Fradia London. He received his early education primarily from private tutors, and completed his school training in Odessa in an evening school and with private tutors. He obtained his matriculation diploma in 1910 from…
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Ragnar Granit – Biographical
Biographical
Ragnar Arthur Granit was born in the parish of Helsinge, Finland, on October 30th, 1900, eldest son of the Crown forester Arthur Wilhelm Granit and his wife Albertina Helena Malmberg. The family then moved to the neighbourhood of Helsingfors where his father opened a firm dealing with sylviculture and forest produce and the son became…
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