“I may be very, very lucky so far” Telephone interview with Satoshi Ōmura following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 5 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. [Satoshi Ōmura] Hello, is this Satoshi Ōmura. [Adam Smith] Hello, my name is Adam Smith, calling…

Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, Ont., Canada. He was the youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine.…

John James Rickard Macleod was born on September 6, 1876 at Cluny, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. He was the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod. When later the family moved to Aberdeen, Macleod went to the Grammar School there and later entered the Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen to study medicine. In 1898…

My Childhood I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Hans Jörnvall of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded for discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation. What does that mean and how does phosphorylation work? Let us…

Before any of the present fuss I was, of course, born; and that turned out to be slightly complicated – not in an obstetrical sense, but in a political one. Several years before the event, an international border was created between my parents’ rural town and the nearby city where maternity facilities were available at…

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English 7 October 2002 has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002 jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston for their discoveries concerning “genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death” Summary The human body consists of hundreds of cell types, all originating from…

French 7 octobre 2002 a décidé ce jour d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de physiologie ou de médecine 2002 conjointement à Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz et John E. Sulston pour leurs découvertes concernant « la régulation génétique de l’organogénèse et de la mort cellulaire programmée » Résumé Notre organisme compte des centaines de types de cellules…