Award ceremony speech

Award ceremony speech

  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…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Johansson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1923 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The object of physiology is to endeavour to recognize in the vital processes well-known physical and chemical processes. Accordingly it has to give answers to…

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Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Jan- Erik Edström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concerns the fine structure and the function of the cell, a subject designated Cell Biology. There are no earlier Prize Winners in this field,…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Folke Sjöqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the discoveries of important principles for drug treatment which have been applied successfully to the treatment of a wide variety of serious illnesses. Sir James Black’s findings have made possible…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor J. Sjöquist, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1923 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Professorial Staff of the Caroline Institute has resolved to award to Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and Professor John James Richard Macleod the Nobel Prize…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To maa man vaere hvis livet skal lykkes, «There must be two if life shall succeed», is the theme of a sentimental old Danish song. The author had in mind man and woman, but…

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Award ceremony speech

In regard to Erlanger’s and Gasser’s works, Professor , Head of the Department of Neurophysiology of the Nobel Institute of the , made the following statement. Three great electrophysiological discoveries can be regarded as milestones in the development of our knowledge of nerve physiology. In the middle of the last century, long before had bequeathed…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Sten Grillner of the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our cells constitute the small working units of the body. Each organ consists of a bewildering number of cells. The nervous system alone has a larger number of nerve cells than…

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Presentation Speech by Professor F. Henschen, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1928 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In awarding the 1928 Nobel Prize for Medicine to Dr. Charles Nicolle, Director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis, the Caroline Institute wished to pay tribute to a…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Theorell, Head of the Biochemical Nobel Department of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The teaching body of the Caroline Institute has decided to award one half of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Professor Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori «for their discovery…

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