Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Charles B. Huggins’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I must express the profound gratitude of my family and myself for the distinction with which you honor us tonight. After the nightingales have sung the other birds should be still but…

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Banquet speech

Peyton Rous’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: – In 1901 I was a student at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and knew enough to realize the great significance of Alfred Nobel’s effort to aid human progress by giving prizes, and…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1966 The Challenge to Man of the Neoplastic Cell Tumors destroy man in a unique and appalling way, as flesh of his own flesh which has somehow been rendered proliferative, rampant, predatory and ungovernable. They are the most concrete and formidable of human maladies, yet despite more than 70 years of…

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Banquet speech

Konrad Bloch’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1964 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The last few weeks have been a time of great happiness, elation and pride for my family and me. We have looked forward excitedly to visiting Stockholm in anticipation of the events which…

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