1929
Christiaan Eijkman – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture Antineuritic Vitamin and Beriberi Beriberi is a disease prevalent, epidemically, in tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Asia, where rice is the staple food of the natives; it is found elsewhere among sago-eating peoples (Molucca Islands), as well as in South America, in places where rice or cassava meal is the staple diet,…
moreSir Frederick Hopkins – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1929 The Earlier History of Vitamin Research When the present century began, animal nutrition was being viewed too exclusively from the standpoint of energy requirements. The fundamental pioneer work of Rubner and its later extension to human subjects in the remarkable enterprise of Atwater, Benedict, Rosa, and others in the United…
moreSir Frederick Hopkins – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Sir Frederick Hopkins’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nobel Laureates are greatly privileged. Their privileges, I venture to say, begin with the invitation to Stockholm, and with the circumstances which meet them there. Stockholm takes care that a fitting stage is provided…
moreArthur Harden – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Hans von Euler-Chelpin – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Arthur Harden – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Arthur Harden’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1929 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My first duty, and it is a most congenial one, is to express on behalf of Professor von Euler, whose name is as well known throughout the Scientific World as here in Stockholm – his adopted home…
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