Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1910 The Chemical Composition of the Cell Nucleus The development of organic chemistry in the past century has been based chiefly on the building up of concepts as to the arrangement of the atoms in space. As you well know, the organic chemist is able to present both this knowledge of…

Theodor Kocher’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1909 (in German) Er freut sich, seinen Dank für die prächtigen Festlichkeiten ausdrücken zu können, die durch die herzliche Teilnahme aller Kreise bis zum Königshaus hinauf ihre Weihe erhalten. Er ist voll Bewunderung für die Uneigennützigkeit, die sich in der ganzen Nobelstiftung und der…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1909 Concerning Pathological Manifestations in Low-Grade Thyroid Diseases Pdf 371 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1904 Physiology of Digestion It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. Food finding its way into the organism where it undergoes certain changes – is decomposed,…

Ronald Ross’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1902 Your Royal Highnesses, grefve Mörner and gentlemen, I beg to thank you for the very great honour you have done me in drinking to my health this evening; and you, Professor Mörner, for the eloquent and flattering terms in which you proposed the…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1902 Researches on Malaria Pdf 795 kB

1901-2010 The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have rewarded several breakthroughs that revealed the way in which our bodies protect us against microscopic threats of almost any description. Each of these breakthroughs have provided us with a better understanding of how the immune system senses an attack, how it recognizes and deals with intruders…

1906-2000 The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have rewarded several achievements that helped to reveal the mysterious complexities of the nervous system. The breakthroughs made by each of the Nobel Laureates below have provided us with a better understanding of how nerves are made up, and how they create and transmit information in the…

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Many important tasks in living cells like muscle contraction and nerve impulse transmission are driven by electrical power, generated by positively and negatively charged atoms, or ions, flowing into and out of cells. It was assumed that this ion transport is regulated by tunnel-like channels nestled within the cell’s outer boundary, yet for decades it…