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 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 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…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Rune Toftgård, Member of the , 10 December 2009 Professor Rune Toftgård delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Every human being, with all the different cell types and…

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…

Presentation Speech by Professor B. Uvnäs, member of the Staff of Professors of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The work of Daniel Bovet should be considered in its context, bearing in mind what had been found out about biological amines between about 1920 and 1930. It had been thought that nerve…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Christer Höög, ledamot av , 10 December 2010 Professor Christer Höög presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina Damer och Herrar, Årets Nobelpris i Fysiologi eller Medicin belönar en av vår tids stora medicinska landvinningar, in vitro-fertilisering – också kallad…

In regard to Dam’s and Doisy’s works, Professor A. Lichtenstein, Member of the Staff of Professors of the , made the following statement The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded this year for theoretically and practically important discoveries regarding the clotting or coagulation of the blood. The Danish investigator Henrik Dam received…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Gösta Gahrton of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During the 19th century, the association between disease symptoms and organ damage was well understood. Trouble with urine could be caused by damage of the kidney, and if the skin was yellow the…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, Rector of the on December 10, 1902 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Among the stipulations Alfred Nobel set forth in his will, on which the Nobel Foundation is based, that concerning the international character of the prizes occupies an important place. This proves not…