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Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess 1881-1973, Swiss physiologist. For his work on the control of organs by certain areas of the brain he shared with Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was (1917-51) professor and director of the physiology institute at the Univ. of Zürich.... Read more |
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George Richards Minot
George Richards Minot , 1885-1950, American physician and pathologist, b. Boston, M.D. Harvard, 1912. From 1928 to 1948 he was professor of medicine at Harvard and director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital. He specialized in diseases of the blood, and for his research on... Read more |
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Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi , 1873-1961, American physiologist and pharmacologist, b. Frankfurt, Germany. He was professor of pharmacology (1909-38) at the Univ. of Graz, Austria, until forced into exile after the Nazi purge of professors; from 1940 he was professor of pharmacology at the college of medicine of New... Read more |
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Harold Eliot Varmus
Harold Eliot Varmus 1939-, American microbiologist, b. Oceanside, N.Y., M.D. Columbia Univ., 1966. A professor at the Univ. of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, Varmus and his co-researcher J. Michael Bishop discovered the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, for which they were... Read more |
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George Hoyt Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple 1878-1976, American pathologist, b. Ashland, N.H., M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1905. He taught at Johns Hopkins (1909-14) and at the Univ. of California (1914-21) and was professor of pathology and dean of the school of medicine and dentistry at the Univ. of Rochester (1921-54). His... Read more |
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Torsten Nils Wiesel
Torsten Nils Wiesel 1924-, Swedish neurobiologist, b. Uppsala, Sweden. After earning a degree in medicine from Karolinska Univ., Stockholm (1954), he took a research position at Johns Hopkins Univ., where he began his work with David Hunter Hubel . The two relocated their research operations to... Read more |
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Otto Heinrich Warburg
Otto Heinrich Warburg , 1883-1970, German physiologist. He was director (1931-53) of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now Max Planck Institute) for cell physiology at Berlin. He investigated the metabolism of tumors and the respiration of cells, particularly cancer cells. For his discovery of the... Read more |
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Orthomolecular therapy
Orthomolecular medicine Definition Orthomolecular medicine is the prevention and treatment of disease by administering nutritional supplements. The patient's state of health, external or environmental factors and quality of diet are taken into account. The architect of orthomolecular medicine,... Read more |
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Gerty T. Cori
Gerty T. Cori The scientist Gerti T. Cory (1896-1957) made important discoveries in biochemistry, especially carbohydrate metabolism, and in 1947, along with her husband, received the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. She later studied glycogen storage diseases and the role of enzymes in... Read more |
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Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk , 1895-1964, German chemist and pathologist. A teacher successively at the universities of Greifswald and Münster, he became (1927) director of research at the I. G. Farbenindustrie laboratory at Wuppertal. Because of a Nazi decree he was obliged to decline the 1939 Nobel Prize... Read more |
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Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine The Nobel Prizes were established in 1901 by the Nobel Foundation, which was endowed by the Swedish industrial chemist and philanthropist, Alfred Bernhard ... |
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Nobel Prizes
...will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–96), a Swedish...distributed in annual prizes for the most important...physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine respectively, to the person...of nations’ (the Nobel Peace Prize), and ... |
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physiology
physiology is defined by dictionaries...connects physiology to medicine. Understanding of...adoped in 1900 by the Nobel Foundation. To recognize...field, the relevant Nobel Prize is still awarded in...although many ... |
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Pavlov, Ivan
...physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for his work on the physiology of gastric secretion...George Henry Lewes, The Physiology of Common Life, that...Petersburg in 1879 to study ... |
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prions
...controversyIn 1997, Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for elucidating an ‘entirely new genre of disease...disease. Only four days before Prusiner's Nobel Prize was announced, the prion scarcely ... |
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Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias
...example in imprinting. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1973 |
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Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
...physiologist. His early work centred on the physiology and neurology of digestion, for which he received the 1904 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Pavlov is best known for his studies of conditioning... |
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Beadle, George Wells
...responsible for the synthesis of enzymes, and that these enzymes control each step of all biochemical reactions occurring in an organism. For this discovery they shared, with J. Lederberg, the 1958 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. |
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Chain, Sir Ernst Boris
Chain, Sir Ernst Boris (1906–79) British biochemist, b. Germany. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming for the isolation and development of penicillin as an antibiotic... |
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Crick, Francis Harry Compton
...biophysicist. In the 1950s, with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, Crick established the double-helix molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The three were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962. |
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Nobel Peace Prize
...from his legacy to finance a prize for physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace. While the first four prizes are awarded in Sweden, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on Nobel's birthday ... |
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Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize any of six international prizes awarded annually...chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature...of peace. The Nobel Prizes, first...explosives. The prizes are traditionally...of ... |
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Lorenz, KonradZacharias
...vonFrisch and NikolaasTinbergen) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their studies of animal behaviour. Lorenz worked for some years at a centre for behavioural physiology built for him by the Max Planck Institute at... |
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DDT
...Hermann Müller (1899–1965) discovered its insecticidal properties, for which he was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. DDT was used widely to control arthropod parasites of humans and then as an agricultural and horticultural... |
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Tinbergen, Nikolaas
...Dutch-born, but later British, zoologist who shared (with KonradLorenz and Karl vonFrisch) the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for studies of animal behaviour under natural conditions. Tinbergen was especially noted for his studies... |
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Frisch, Karl von
...1982)An Austrian zoologist who was joint winner (with KonradLorenz and NikolaasTinbergen) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their studies of animal behaviour. Von Frisch specialized in insect behaviour and in the 1940s showed... |
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Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian
...Trinity College, Cambridge. Specializing in physiology, he became a fellow of his college in 1913...extensively on the nervous system. He shared the Nobel prize in 1932, held the chair of physiology from 1937 to 1951, and was master of Trinity... |
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Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936) Russian physiologist; discovered conditioned reflexes, e.g. dogs salivating in anticipation of food; Nobel Prize 1904 for his work on the physiology of digestion. |
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Muller, HermannJoseph
...An American geneticist, who was awarded the 1927 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize and the 1946 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery in 1927 that X-rays increase the rate of gene mutation. His research into mutations... |
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Fleming, Sir Alexander
...London at 13 and then went to St Mary's hospital for training in medicine. He was assistant to Sir Almroth Wright, working on bacteria...penicillin was purified to be clinically effective. The three shared a Nobel Prize in 1945. |
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The Nobel Prize and why there is a prize in physiology or medicine
...distribution of yearly prizes in the fields...peace work, and physiology/medicine. There has been a prize in the field...and the physics prize went to Roentgen...recognized with Nobel Prizes. As in ... |
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Wiley Authors win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008.
...Sons Ltd: Wiley Authors win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008(C)1994-2008...pleased to announce that the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in ... |
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AstraZeneca Nobel Medicine Initiative to Increase Interest in the Nobel Prize...
...Physiology or Medicine," said...Laureates in Physiology or Medicine at selected...Content in Physiology or Medicine...the Nobel Prize in Physiology...of related ... |
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3rd LD: British scientist win 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
...received the Lasker Prize in 2001. Edwards...Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. The winners of the physics prize will be announced...Monday. The annual Nobel Prizes are usually announced...death of ... |
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE TO SPEAK AT CAMPUS ON MARCH 8
...following news release: Dr. Paul Nurse, PhD, a Nobel Prize winner and president of Rockefeller University...Society on Thursday, March 8. Nurse won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for his work on the cell ... |
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2nd LD Writethru: Three scientists share 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
...2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine STOCKHOLM, Oct. 3...scientists shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced the Nobel jury -- the ... |
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Analysis: Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is awarded to two Americans...
...10-04-2004 Analysis: Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is awarded to two Americans...And I'm Steve Inskeep. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine...it's interesting that the ... |
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Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to be announced in Stockholm
...SwedenThe Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was to be announced...in the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist...decision on the medicine prize is taken by the institute's Nobel ... |
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A week of Nobel Prizes opens with the award for physiology or medicine
...Sweden A week of Nobel Prizes opens Monday with the award for medicine or physiology and culminates...prestigious peace prize after months of...announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature has...other ... |
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UT Southwestern scientist shares 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
...today shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two other scientists...France shared half the prize for their discovery...now have won five Nobel Prizes since 1985. Dr...been honored by the ... |
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