NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 6 October 1997 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 to Stanley B. Prusiner for his discovery of “Prions – a new biological principle of infection”. Summary The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to…

In regard to Richards’ work Professor H.G. Söderbaum, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , made the following statement The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences resolved in 1915 to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 1914 to Theodore William Richards, Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., in recognition of…

French 10 octobre 2001 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2001 pour le développement de la synthèse asymétrique catalytique, pour moitié collectivement à William S. Knowles Saint-Louis, Missouri, USA, et à Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japon, “pour leurs travaux sur les réactions d’hydrogénation catalysées par chiralité”, et pour l’autre…

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET 14 October 1976 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1976 jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek for their discoveries concerning “new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”. The main interest regarding epidemic diseases has concerned different acute diseases at which symptoms…

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 10 October 1980 has decided today to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1980 jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George Snell for their discoveries concerning “genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”. Summary The surface of…

19 October 1981 has decided to award the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half jointly to Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen, Harvard University, USA, and Professor Arthur L. Schawlow, Stanford University, USA, for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy, and by the other half to Professor Kai M. Siegbahn, Uppsala University, Sweden, for…

Swedish 13 oktober 2008 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2008 till Paul KrugmanPrinceton University, NJ, USA “för hans analys av handelsmönster och lokalisering av ekonomisk verksamhet” Internationell handel och ekonomisk geografi Frågor om handelsmönster och lokalisering har alltid stått i centrum för den ekonomiska debatten.…

English 13 October 2008 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 to Paul KrugmanPrinceton University, NJ, USA “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity” International Trade and Economic Geography Patterns of trade and location have always been key issues in the…

17 October 1984 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1984 jointly to Professor Carlo Rubbia, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Dr Simon Van der Meer, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction.…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1993 to Nelson R. Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. From their different points of departure, Mandela and de Klerk have reached agreement on…