Physiology or Medicine
Gerty Cori – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Bernardo Houssay – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947 The Role of the Hypophysis in Carbohydrate Metabolism and in Diabetes The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates. – These are ingested with the food or produced by the liver, and after being converted into glucose they are utilized by all the cells of the organism,…
moreCarl Cori – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Carl Cori’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1947 Your Royal Highnesses, your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. May I express my deep gratitude for the signal honor conferred upon me by the award of the Nobel Prize. To have thus been singled out among so many worthy scientists must evoke a feeling…
moreHermann J. Muller – Banquet speech
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…
moreHermann J. Muller – Nobel Lecture
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…
moreJoseph Erlanger – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1947 Some Observations on the Responses of Single Nerve Fibers Pdf 141 kB
moreHerbert S. Gasser – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Herbert S. Gasser – Banquet speech
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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