NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1988 jointly to Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings for their discoveries of “important principles for drug treatment”. Summary The discoveries awarded with this year’s Nobel Prize…

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands. The romantic notion that I might have tenuous roots with two great traditions – with the political rebelliousness of Rob Roy McGregor and with the Scottish tradition…

The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces are employed by the World Organization to maintain or re-establish peace in an area of armed conflict. The UN may engage in conflicts between states as well as in struggles within states. The UN acts as an impartial third party in order to prepare the ground for a settlement of…

I was born February 20, 1937 in München as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber. My father was cashier at a bank and my mother kept the house and brought up the children, me and my younger sister, a difficult task during the war, a continuous struggle for some milk and bread and…

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18 October 1988 has decided to award the 1988 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Maurice Allais, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, France, for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources. One of the principal tasks of basic research in economics is to formulate…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingemar Ståhl of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In 1943, during the dark years of German occupation, a remarkable work in economic theory was published in France. The title was A la Recherche d’une Discipline Economique and the author was a 32…

My youthI was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class. In August 1914, my father was called to war, and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany…

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