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Edgar Adrian’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1932 Your Royal Highness, your Excellencies, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen In my College at Cambridge – Trinity College – all of us know of Stockholm as the beautiful capital of a country which has a great history and is now in the forefront…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1932 The Activity of the Nerve Fibres The sense organs respond to certain changes in their environment by sending messages or signals to the central nervous system. The signals travel rapidly over the long threads of protoplasm which form the sensory nerve fibres, and fresh signals are sent out by the…

Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1931 The Oxygen-Transferring Ferment of Respiration Pdf 158 kB

Otto Warburg’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1931 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, meine Damen und Herren! Einar Hammarsten hat vor wenigen Stunden auseinandergesetzt, was die Atmung der lebendigen Substanz ist und worauf sie chemisch beruht. Spuren einer Schwermetallverbindung übertragen in lebenden Zellen den Sauerstoff und machen damit die Kräfte für das…

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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1930 On Individual Differences in Human Blood Pdf 48 kB

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As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1928, a letter from the Laureate was read by the French Minister, Mr. Armand Bernard “Altesses Royales, Excellences, Monsieur le président et Messieurs les membres du Conseil de Faculté de l’Institut Carolin de Stockholm, Seul, un engagement…

Nobel Lecture Investigations on Typhus I am going to give you an account of how I arrived at the results for which I have received the Nobel Prize for Medicine. I shall also summarize these results. It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. I was born, first studied…