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…

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, 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…

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 G. Häggquist, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1935 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. When the Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute decided that Professor Hans Spemann should be considered pre-eminently for this year’s Nobel Prize it was the first time…

  Presentation Speech by Professor C. Sundberg, Vice-Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1913 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize for the year 1913 for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded by the Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, to…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Gard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Immunebodies or antibodies is the designation of a group of proteins in the blood, that play an important part in the defense against infections and in the development of many different diseases. Their perhaps most…

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, pursuant to the task devolving upon them by the terms of the will of Alfred Nobel, have awarded the Prize…