Presentation Speech by Professor Hans Ringertz of the , December 10, 2003. Professor Hans Ringertz delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, To be able to visualize the inner organs of…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Bergstrand, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Yellow fever is one of many diseases spread by insects which have been and to some extent still are a scourge in certain tropical and subtropical countries. We do not know when…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Nils Ringertz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1983 recognizes a great discovery about the organization of genes on chromosomes and how these genes, by changing places, can alter their function. This discovery,…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As you know, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the current year has been awarded to Allvar Gullstrand, Professor at the University of Uppsala, for his works concerning the…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Viktor Mutt of the December 10, 1985 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on August 26, 1816, the chemist Michel Chevreul suggested that a substance, with fat-like properties, discovered some decades previously in gallstones…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Christer Betsholtz, Member of the , 10 December 2007. Professor Christer Betsholtz delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards discoveries…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Petterson, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1920 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1919 to the Director of the Pasteur Institute,…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The heart is the sun of the microcosm formed by the human body, as stated already by William Harvey in his monumental treatise on the circulation of the blood. Its…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Hans Wigzell of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The defence of our body against infections is carried out by the immune system, a talented cellular society with a capacity to distinguish between self and non-self and with a memory capable of…

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Johansson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1920 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As the first application of a quantitative approach to the field of Physiology, one quotes the calculation on which Harvey based his theory of the…