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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1905 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of the Royal Caroline Institute takes great pleasure in giving this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine to the man who takes precedence among those now alive as a pioneer…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Engström, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Audience. An attempt to explain the significance of the discovery which has led to this year’s Nobel Prize award in Physiology or Medicine could begin at a point which seems to be far from the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Gahrton of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During the 19th century, the association between disease symptoms and organ damage was well understood. Trouble with urine could be caused by damage of the kidney, and if the skin was yellow the…

Contents:    These pages are based on material from the 1999 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Poster.

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

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Birthplace and Family: Born August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry of Elmwood, a small suburb. Father was in banking; mother trained in business school and after dad’s death, when I was 11 years old, she became assistant to the principal in the local high school. One brother, Russell…