25 October 1972 has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1972 , to John R Hicks, Oxford University, U K and Kenneth Arrow, Harvard University, USA for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory. The progress of the economic sciences has…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ragnar Bentzel of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In a couple of years, we shall be able to celebrate the centenary of a remarkable event in the history of economic science. In 1874, the French economist Leon Walras made an extremely important contribution to…

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I was born in 1904 at Warwick, England, where my father was a journalist on a local newspaper. I was educated at Clifton College (1917-22) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-26), an expensive education financed by mathematical scholarships. Thus, during my school days, and in my first year at Oxford, I was a mathematical specialist;…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1972 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1972 jointly to Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter for their discoveries concerning “the chemical structure of antibodies”. Antibodies is the collective name of a group of blood proteins that play an important part in the defense against…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Gard of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Immunebodies or antibodies is the designation of a group of proteins in the blood, that play an important part in the defense against infections and in the development of many different diseases. Their perhaps most…

Rodney Robert Porter born 8 October 1917 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School taking his Hons.B.Sc. (Biochemistry) in 1939 at the University of Liverpool and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1948. After one year’s postdoctoral work at Cambridge, Professor Porter joined the scientific staff of the…