Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 to Stanley B. Prusiner, for his discovery of “prions – a new biological principle of infection”. Stanley B. Prusiner was born in 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Since 1968 he has been…
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Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet – Biographical
Biographical
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was born at Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, on September 3rd, 1899. He is the son of the Manager of the branch of the Colonial Bank in that town. He was educated at the Victoria State Schools and at Geelong College, completing his medical course at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated…
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Richard Axel – Biographical
Biographical
New York City is my world. I was born in Brooklyn, the first child of immigrant parents whose education was disrupted by the Nazi invasion of Poland. Although not themselves learned, my parents shared a deep respect for learning. I grew up in a home rich in warmth, but empty of books, art or music.…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1945 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Attempts have been made to reach the goal of medical art – the prevention and cure of disease – by many different paths. New and reliable ones have…
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