Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Otto Loewi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1936 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, Excellenzen, meine Damen und Herren! Grosse Menschen stehen nicht nur im Leben, sondern auch über dem Leben, übersehen von da die Zusammenhänge und erkennen, was der Menschheit eignet und was ihr noctut. Ein solcher Mensch war Alfred Nobel und…

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Banquet speech

Sir Henry Dale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1936 The whole world admires the fidelity and the wide international vision with which his countrymen have fulfilled the great Trust committed to them by Alfred Nobel, a loyal son of this country and a citizen of the whole world. Among those in…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 Some Recent Extensions of the Chemical Transmission of the Effects of Nerve Impulses The transmission of the effects of nerve impulses, by the release of chemical agents, first became an experimental reality in 1921. In that year Otto Loewi published the first of the series , , , , ,…

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