Presentation Speech by Professor C. Sundberg, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1907 The Staff of Professors at the Caroline Institute have this year awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Dr. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, for his work on the importance of the protozoa as pathogens. The Staff…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Hedrén, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1930 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thirty years ago, in 1900, in the course of his serological studies Landsteiner observed that when, under normal physiological conditions, blood serum of a human…

Presentation Speech by Professor H. Olivecrona, member of the Staff of Professors of the . Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Caroline Institute, through the presentation of this year’s Nobel Prize, desires to reward two important discoveries in the fields of neurophysiology and its clinical application, neurology. Both of these discoveries touch upon the connection…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Liljestrand, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In the year 1563 the Italian anatomist, Eustachi, described how, at the upper poles of the kidneys in man, he had found two gland-like organs, which had been overlooked up to that time, but…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Göran K. Hansson, Sekreterare i och i Medicinska Nobelkommittén, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, Vi lever farligt. Under den timme ni sitter här i Konserthuset byter ni miljontals bakterier och virus med varandra.  Lyckligtvis är ni utrustade med bra försvar, och därför…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary of the and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, 10 December 2011 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, We live in a dangerous world. During the hour you spend here in the Concert Hall, you will be exchanging millions…

  Presentation Speech by Professor P. Reichard, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. During the fall of 1868, exactly 100 years ago, a young Swiss physician by the name of Friedrich Miescher isolated a new type of compound from cell nuclei. He called…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Pernow of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, taught us that good health requires the four humors – blood from the heart, phlegm from the brain, and the yellow and black bile from the liver and…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Jan Andersson, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för fysiologi eller medicin, 10 December 2008 Professor Jan Andersson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar, Årets Nobelpris i Fysiologi eller Medicin belönar två upptäckter av virus som…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Börje Uvnäs, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The work for which this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded has its origin in earlier prize-winning discoveries. It is wellknown that nerve impulses are…