George H. Whipple’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1934 Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: To this distinguished company I wish to express my most sincere appreciation not only for the Nobel Award but for the generous hospitality and friendly interest shown Mrs. Whipple and myself. For generous words of praise…

William P. Murphy’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1934 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As Alfred Nobel has been characterised as the typical Swede, so also was he a roamer. Always a courier of good-will his wanderings took him to France, England, Russia, Spain, Denmark, Italy and to…

George R. Minot’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1934 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: Medicine disregards international boundaries. The physician studies for the benefit of mankind. Alfred Nobel, by the expression of his lofty ideals, has recognized the importance of science and creative accomplishments in augmenting human happiness.…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1934 The Development of Liver Therapy in Pernicious Anemia The idea that something in food might be of advantage to patients with pernicious anemia was in my mind in 1912, when I was a house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as is noted in certain case records there. Ever since…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1934 Pernicious Anemia During the twenty-year period following 1849, in which year Thomas Addison first described the diseased condition, which he designated as “idiopathic” anemia, reports of similar cases were published by such men as Barclay, Wilks, Bristowe, Lebert, Habershon, and others. Further interest was aroused, both on the Continent and…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1934 Hemoglobin Regeneration as Influenced by Diet and Other Factors Pdf 98 kB

Links to other sites

Telegram from Thomas Hunt Morgan, read by Mr. Steinhardt, Minister of the United States, at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1933 It is with great regret that I am unable to be present at the award of the Nobel prizes. Circumstances here in connection with the establishment of a new group in physiology…

Links to other sites

Nobel Lecture, June 4, 1934 The Relation of Genetics to Physiology and Medicine Pdf 90 kB