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History

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was originally established by the General Assembly of the United Nations for a three-year period from January 1, 1951, to December 31, 1953, but it has since been voted successive five-year extensions through 1958, 1963, 1968, and 1973. Within the framework of the United…

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Award ceremony speech

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…

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Biographical

John Franklin Enders was born on February 10th, 1897, at West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. He is the son of John Ostrom Enders, a banker in Hartford, and Harriet Goulden Enders (née Whitmore). Enders was educated at the Noah Webster School at Hartford and St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Finishing school in 1915, he…

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