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has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s liberation leader Aung San and showed an early interest in Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent protest. After having long refrained…

Presentation Speech by Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are assembled here today to honour Aung San Suu Kyi for her outstanding work for democracy and human rights, and to present to her the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991. The occasion gives rise to many and partly…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sten Grillner of the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our cells constitute the small working units of the body. Each organ consists of a bewildering number of cells. The nervous system alone has a larger number of nerve cells than…

Buchloe is a small town in Bavaria, situated in a rolling countryside in view of the Alps, 70 km west from Munich. This is where I grew up and spent most of my life until 1963, when I entered university. I was born in Landsberg, another town close by on the 20th of March 1944.…

I was born during the second world war in Stuttgart, the capital of Swebia, as the first of two children. My father, Bertold Sakmann, was the director of a theatre, the third son of a physician whose family had lived in southern Germany for several generations. My mother, Annemarie Sakmann, was a physiotherapist and was…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1991 jointly to Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann for their discoveries concerning “the function of single ion channels in cells”. Summary Each living cell is surrounded by a membrane which separates the…