[1997 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine].

Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

Event web site: http://www.oulu.fi/ltk/tutkimus/nobel Organizers: Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Biocenter Oulu, and Medical Research Center Oulu More information: Peppi Karppinen, [email protected] Where: Lecture Hall K101, Aapistie 7A When: Oct 3, 11:30 – 13:30 To whom: University and Hospital personnel, researchers, students © The Nobel Foundation ...

The Nobel Prize and mainstream medicine.

A recent gathering of clinicians was asked: “Who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?”. The silence was telling. The revelation that it went to two US researchers for “their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organisation of the olfactory system” was greeted with an incredulous “Is that so?”. “A Nobel Prize on the nose!” was one mischievous rejoinder. Obviously, the Nobel P...

Epidemiology and the elusive Nobel Prize.

Many epidemiologists have been concerned and frustrated that our scholarly activities have never been honored by a Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Why has this not happened, and why may it be unlikely ever to happen? As I am recently retired following 11 years of service on the Nobel Prize Awarding Assembly, no secrets can pass my lips for another 50 years. However, when the embargo is ...

Thomas Jonnesco - A Nominne for Nobel Prize, 1924.

to the Bucharest University, decided to nominate Thoma Ionescu aka Thomas Jonnesco, for the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. His entry as nominee was registered by the Nobel Foundation under the number: 30/1924, one out of 102 nomination sent that year. Thoma Ionescu had nine proposals enlisted in the Nobel archive, all sentby the Medical Faculty Staff of Bucharest University, as follows...

Yellow fever and Max Theiler: the only Nobel Prize for a virus vaccine

In 1951, Max Theiler of the Rockefeller Foundation received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever--a discovery first reported in the JEM 70 years ago. This was the first, and so far the only, Nobel Prize given for the development of a virus vaccine. Recently released Nobel archives now reveal how the advances in the yellow fever...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 Presentation Speech