Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Klareskog of the Nobel Committee at the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel are receiving their Prizes for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defense, or to be more precise – they discovered…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, How does a cancercell arise? What distinguishes it from a normal cell? Cancercells are social misfits, outside the control of the organism. The capacity for unlimited growth is inherited from generation to generation.…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sten Lindahl of the at the Karolinska Institutet, December 10, 1998. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Sten Lindahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Robert Furchgott,…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Erling Norrby of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, An occasional encounter with infectious agents is part of our daily life. The smallest among these infectious agents are called viruses. In spite of their small size viruses may cause many different types…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1903 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded by the Council of Professors of the Caroline Institute to Professor Niels Finsen of Copenhagen in recognition of his work…

Presentation Speech by Professor C.G. Bernhard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In one of his scientific papers von Békésy describes that on board a ship he became interested in how the fog horn was made, since he had been struck by the fact that…

Presentation Speech by Professor T. Caspersson, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. That children resemble their parents, that striking features in both domestic animals and cultivated plants are transmitted from one generation to another, or in short, the circumstance that characteristics descend from generation to generation,…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Daneholt of the Nobel Assembly of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Why do children resemble their parents? This question has probably always fascinated humans, but not until the advent of natural science have we arrived at an increasingly satisfactory answer.…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil B. Fredholm of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is not very strange that a car, a television set or some other complex device sometimes stops working. No, the extraordinary thing is that these…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Jan Andersson, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2008 Professor Jan Andersson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This…