Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1908 On the Present State of the Question of Immunity in Infectious Diseases I am here before you by virtue of paragraph 9 of the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which states that “it shall be incumbent on a prize-winner, whenever this is possible, to give a public lecture on a…

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Biographical

My fraternal twin, Roger, and I were born prematurely on June 23rd, 1925, in Halifax, England, an industrial town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, although we lived outside Halifax at 2, Woodhall Crescent on Wakefield Road, a row house rented from the town. My father, William Smithies, was at that time working for his…

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