Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The medical sciences are mutually interdependent. Progress in one field is often closely associated with development in others. The rise in one branch of science can often have its origin in…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Their research opens up the possibility to copy human beings in the laboratory, to construct geniuses, to massproduce workers, or to create criminals.” This is a quotation from the presentation on Swedish television…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Fischer, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discovery of the insecticidal properties of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloromethylmethane, abbreviated as DDT, has a short and crowded history which, from the medical point of view, is closely connected with the fight against typhus during the last…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Klein, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. The year was 1910. Only recently had it been understood that every cell of the body has been derived from another cell by division and that cancer cells…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Medical Prize has been awarded this year to the famous surgeon, Professor Theodor Kocher of Bern, in recognition of his work concerning the physiology, pathology and surgery of the…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Rune Toftgård, ledamot av , 10 December 2009 Professor Rune Toftgård presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar, Varje människa med alla olika celltyper och vävnader utvecklas från en första befruktad äggcell genom upprepade celldelningar. Den kompletta…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the , on December 10, 1910 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As you are aware the medical Nobel Prize has this year been conferred on the Professor of Physiology at the University of Heidelberg, Geheimrat Albrecht Kossel. Before he is presented with…

Presentation Speech by Professor S. Gard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The principles of cultivation of bacteria were laid down in the late 1870’s by . Since that time the bacteriologists could study systematically the diseases caused by bacteria, isolate the causative agents in…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Peter Reichard, the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What applies to bacteria also applies to elephants. This free quotation after the French Nobel prize winner, , illustrates with some exaggeration one important principle of biology: that of the identity of the fundamental life processes. Yet one…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Collegium of Karolinska Institutet has this year awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Professor Hugo Theorell for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidative enzymes. More…