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Presentation Speech by Ragnvald Moe, Secretary to the on December 10, 1913 Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845, in the State of New York and took his degree in law at New York University in 1867. At a later date he studied international law and took his doctorate in 1894. For some years…

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Presentation Speech by Professor J. Åkerman, member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the , on December 10, 1912 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Staff of Professors of the Royal Caroline Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Doctor Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller…

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Alexis Carrel was born at Lyons, France, on June 28, 1873. He was the son of a business man, also named Alexis Carrel, who died when his son was very young. Alexis was educated at home by his mother Anne Ricard, and also at St. Joseph School, Lyons. In 1889 he took the degree of…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, President of , on December 10, 1912 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The aim of the scientist is, or should be, to extend the limits of human knowledge. However, the roads open to him are many and he can render service in his chosen field in…

The two methods awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry changed the way in which chemists artificially created carbon-containing, or organic, compounds in the laboratory. Building such compounds is limited by the reactions that chemists have at their disposal to piece together or manipulate a series of carbon atoms to form more complex products. The…