Nobel Prize

My father, Dr. Edward E. Thomas was born in 1870 and moved to Texas with his family in a covered wagon in 1874. He grew up in frontier Texas and, with almost no formal schooling went to the University of Louisville, Kentucky, where he received his M. D. His first wife died of tuberculosis, and…

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born on September 25, 1866, at Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. He was the eldest son of Charlton Hunt Morgan. He was educated at the University of Kentucky, where he took his B.S. degree in 1886, subsequently doing postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied morphology with W. K. Brooks, and…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTETTHE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1981 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1981 with one half to Roger W. Sperry for his discoveries concerning “the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres” and the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Rolf Luft of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The word “hormones” and associated terms have always stimulated our fantasy. The mystery in connection with hormones has been, from the beginning, equally overwhelming to the researcher and the layman. It is easy…

How do newly synthesized proteins find their correct destinations within a cell, and how are they able to pass across the tightly sealed intracellular membranes? These were the central questions that Günter Blobel began to address in the late 1960s. He started by analyzing how newly synthesized secretory proteins are first targeted to and then…