Nobel Prizes That Changed Medicine

Heroes in endocrinology: Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was first awarded in 1901. Since then, the Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry and Physics have been awarded to at least 33 distinguished researchers who were directly or indirectly involved in research into the field of endocrinology. This paper reflects on the life histories, careers and achievements of 11 of them: Frederick G Banting, R...

Nobel Prizes: Contributions to Cardiology

The Nobel Prize was created by Alfred Nobel. The first prize was awarded in 1901 and Emil Adolf von Behring was the first laureate in medicine due to his research in diphtheria serum. Regarding cardiology, Nobel Prize's history permits a global comprehension of progress in pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapeutics of various cardiac diseases in last 120 years. The objective of this study was ...

Century of Nobel Prizes : 1909 Chemistry Laureate

Shridhar R Gadre is a professor of physical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Pune. He has been actively working in the area of theoretical and computational chemistry. He feels that the history of the development of a concept should .be inextricably woven into the teaching of a topic. Similarly, the subject could be made more lively by incorporating brief biographical ske...

Alfred Nobel and His Prizes: From Dynamite to DNA

Alfred Nobel was one of the most successful chemists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and businessmen of the late nineteenth century. In a decision later in life, he rewrote his will to leave virtually all his fortune to establish prizes for persons of any nationality who made the most compelling achievement for the benefit of mankind in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, liter...

Nobel prizes for computational science [The Last Word]