Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1946 The Production of Mutations If as Darwin maintained the adaptiveness of living things results from natural selection, rather than from a teleological tendency in the process of variation itself, then heritable variations must, under most conditions, occur in numerous directions, so as to give a wide range of choice for…

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Banquet speech

Hermann J. Muller’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: We scientists feel as if we had a little glimpse into the millennium when we visit Sweden and see what encouragements and what a high place of honor are accorded to the scientific way of life…

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Banquet speech

Herbert S. Gasser’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The pleasure of the moment could only be augmented had it been possible for more of the group of which I am a member to have been able to accept the invitation to be here…

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