Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Alexis Carrel’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1912 (in French) Je remercie les membres de l’Institut Carolin pour l’honneur qu’ils m’ont fait en me décernant le glorieux Prix Nobel. Cet honneur s’adresse aussi aux hommes qui ont inspiré ces travaux et à ceux qui ont fondé et organisé la grande institution…

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Banquet speech

Allvar Gullstrand’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1911 (in Swedish) Kungliga högheter! Mina damer och herrar! Vid svenska fanor ville jag likna Nobelprisen. De äro planterade af svensk man på en plats, der de synas för hela världen. En gång hvarje år höjas de och tilldraga sig då allas blickar. Till…

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Nobel Prize lecture

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…

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Banquet speech

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…

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Nobel Prize lecture

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,…

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Banquet speech

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…

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