Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 The Role of Heart Catheterization and Angiocardiography in the Development of Modern Medicine The ancient world and the Middle Ages had no idea of the existence of the circulation of the blood. It was not until the Late Renaissance that efforts were made to grasp this process anatomically and understand…

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Nobel Prize lecture

  Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 The Contributions of Right Heart Catheterization to Physiology and Medicine, with Some Observations on the Physiopathology of Pulmonary Heart Disease The study of the right heart in man has held a continuing place in the researches of Dr. Cournand and myself over the past twenty-five years, both under physiological…

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Banquet speech

Hugo Theorell’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 (in Swedish) Eders Majestäter, Kungliga Högheter, Ärade församling! Jag tror ingen här i dag skulle kunna ha en giltigare reell, om än inte formell anledning än jag att tacka Alfred Nobel for maten. I 19 år har han givit mig och min familj…

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