Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 The First Successful Organ Transplants in Man Preface”If gold medals and prizes were awarded to institutions instead of individuals, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of 30 years ago would have qualified. The ruling board and administrative structure of that hospital did not falter in…

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Joseph E. Murray delivering his banquet speech at the Nobel Prize banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1990. Joseph E. Murray’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Dr. Thomas and myself I thank you for this honor. Your recognition of…

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Interview transcript Professor Sir James Black, welcome to this Nobel interview. The Nobel Prize that you were awarded in 1988 was kind of unusual I would say, you got the prize for the discoveries in drug research, and this was the first prize in this area in 31 years. Were you very…

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Joseph L. Goldstein’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Michael Brown and I are grateful to the Swedish academic community for bestowing this honor on us. Some may think that we are too young for this award. But let me point out that we work…

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Michael S. Brown’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1985 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: Joe and I were trained as physicians and we still perform clinical duties. Yet, we realized that the understanding of a complex problem such as atherosclerosis requires the tools of basic science. We are fortunate to…