Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was born at Silkeborg (Denmark) on April 23, 1867. His father, C. E. A. Fibiger, was a local medical practitioner and his mother, Elfride Muller, was a writer. Fibiger gained his bachelor’s degree in 1883 and qualified as a doctor in 1890. After a period of working in hospitals and studying…

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Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, pursuant to the task devolving upon them by the terms of the will of Alfred Nobel, have awarded the Prize…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1972 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1972 jointly to Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter for their discoveries concerning “the chemical structure of antibodies”. Antibodies is the collective name of a group of blood proteins that play an important part in the defense against…

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English Presentation Speech by Professor Christer Höög, Member of the , 10 December 2010 Professor Christer Höög delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards one…

A chromosome having the standard sequence of regions labelled 1 to 7, inclusive, is shown on the left. If a segment labelled 2 and 3 becomes inverted then the new configuration shown on the right is called an inversion. When the standard and inverted chromosomes pair with one another the result is a chromosome loop…

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.