Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Bengt I. Samuelsson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Students, On behalf of this year’s laureates, I have the great pleasure to express our thanks for your kind words and for your beautiful songs. Alfred Nobel regarded science and art as the benefactors of…

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Banquet speech

Sune K. Bergström’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1982 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, According to Alfred Nobel’s will the prize that the three of us have shared is for “the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine” a discovery that “shall have conferred the greatest benefit…

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Banquet speech

Torsten N. Wiesel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a privilege and pleasure to speak on behalf of the three laureates in Physiology or Medicine, Roger Sperry, David Hubel, and myself. We wish to express our deep gratitude to all concerned for the…

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