Physiology or Medicine

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by F. Henschen, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1933 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Honourable Audience. As long as human beings have existed they will have observed children’s resemblance to their parents, the resemblance or non-resemblance of brothers and sisters, and the appearance of characteristic qualities…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Wallgren, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Shortly after the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by in 1882 a search was made for an effective therapeutic agent against this germ. Eight years later Koch announced that he had succeeded in…

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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Christer Höög, ledamot av , 10 December 2010 Professor Christer Höög presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar, Årets Nobelpris i Fysiologi eller Medicin belönar en av vår tids stora medicinska landvinningar, in vitro-fertilisering – också kallad…

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Biographical

I was born in France on January 11, 1924 in the small town of Dijon, the capital of Burgundy. I was educated there in the public schools and the lycée. I entered medical school in Dijon in 1943 and received the M.D. degree from the Faculté de Médecine of Lyon in 1949, – the two…

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