Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Robin Warren and myself I would like to thank the Nobel Foundation for this great honour. I am here with my wife, Adrienne, who has shared my work and my life for the past 33 years. I…

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Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen. Émile Zola asked in an address to students, “Did science promise happiness? No, I don’t think so,” he replied. “It promised truth and the question is whether truth will ever make us happy.” Last month, science afforded me enormous happiness.…

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Curriculum Vitae

Richard Axel, born July 2, 1946, New York, NY, USA Address: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, Hammer Health Sciences Center, 701 West 168th Street, Room 1014, New York, NY 10032, USA   Academic Education and Appointments 1967 A.B. Columbia University, New York, NY 1970 M.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 1978…

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