Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

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…

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Banquet speech

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…

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Nobel Prize lecture

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…

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Banquet speech

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…

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