While fighting off infectious agents, our immune defences must take extreme care to avoid harming any cells belonging to its own host. Achieving this requires a sophisticated self-identification system, and this is centred on a collection of genes called the major histocompatibility complex, or MHC, which encode proteins known collectively as histocompatibility antigens. Each individual…

Czesław Miłosz’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I accept this highest honor on behalf of all men and women for whom I am not so much an individual as a voice, and someone who belongs to them. They should be invoked here, and they…

English So Little I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn’t keep up. My heart grew weary From joy, Despair, Ardor, Hope. The jaws of Leviathan Were closing upon me. Naked, I lay on the shores Of desert islands. The white whale of the…

  Works in Polish Poemat o czasie zastygłym. – Wilno: Kolo Polonistów Sluchaczy Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego, 1933 Trzy zimy. – Wilno: Zwiazek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich, 1936 Wiersze. – Lwów, 1939 Ocalenie. – Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1945 Swiatlo dzienne. – Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1953 Zniewolony umysł. – Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1953 Zdobycie władzy. – Paris: Instytut Literacki,…

  Born: Brooklyn, NY, June 30, 1926 Address: 838 Santa Fe Ave., Stanford, CA 94305 Education 1948 B.S., Pennsylvania State University 1952 Ph.D., Western Reserve University Professional Background 1950-52 Predoctoral Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health. 1952-54 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, American Cancer Society Dr. H. M. Kalckar, Institute of Cytophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark Dr. Arthur Kornberg,…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1980 Determination of Nucleotide Sequences in DNA Pdf 243 kB

Frederick Sanger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 When I was here 22 years ago I addressed the students of 1958 as “fellow students” because although I was 40 years old I still felt that I was one of them, and I still feel the same today. I and my colleagues here have…

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Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1980 Some Economic Scenarios for the 1980’s Pdf 642 kB

Lawrence R. Klein’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1980 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The apparent wish of Alfred Nobel that the prize sums awarded under the terms of his will should enable the winners to pursue creative work without concern for personal economic affairs has been set back by…