Presentation Speech by Professor David Ottoson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, One day in October 1649, René Descartes, the French philosopher and mathematician acknowledged as the greatest brain researcher of the period, arrived in Stockholm at the pressing invitation of Queen Christina. It was…

English 2010-10-04 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 to Robert G. Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization Summary Robert Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for the development of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a…

Swedish 2010-10-04 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i Fysiologi eller Medicin år 2010 tilldelas Robert G. Edwards för utvecklingen av in vitro-fertilisering Sammanfattning Robert Edwards belönas med 2010 års Nobelpris för utvecklingen av in vitro-fertilisering (IVF eller provrörsbefruktning). Hans insatser har gjort det möjligt att behandla ofrivillig barnlöshet (infertilitet), ett problem som mer än 10…

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I was born in Wilno, Poland on November 30, 1926, being of Polish, Austro-Hungarian, French and Swedish ancestry. My father, a professional soldier trained in the military academies of Vienna, Austria and St. Cyr, France, had to leave his family when the Second World War broke out to fight with the Allied Forces. My life…

Konrad E. Bloch was born on 21st January 1912, in Neisse, Upper Silesia, then Germany, the son of Fritz Bloch and his wife Hedwig, née Striemer. He attended the elementary school and the Real gymnasium in the same city and in 1930 went to Munich to study chemistry at the Technische Hochschule. He became soon…

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