Alfred Nobel (1833-1896 )

1. Sir Martin J. Evans Alfred Nobel (1833-1896 ) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Medicine Noble Laureates – Mohamed Mobarak 2007

2. "It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration whatever shall be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not" (quote from the English translation of Alfred Nobel’s will).

3. Alfred Nobel - The Man Behind the Nobel Prize

4. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace. The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize..

8. The medal of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute represents the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to quench a sick girl's thirst.

10. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to 189 persons since 1901

11. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths" Emil Adolf von Behring

12. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904 "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged" Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

18. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905 "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis Robert Koch

19. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system" Camillo Golgi

20. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923 for the discovery of insulin" Frederick Grant Banting

21. Banting and Best's laboratory where insulin was discovered.

22. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" Sir Alexander Fleming

24. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 Francis Harry Compton Crick James Dewey Watson

25. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" She was the first American woman to win an unshared Nobel. Among the many honors awarded, in 1970, the National Medal of Science, the US Government's highest science award. Barbara McClintock

27. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"

30. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" Sir Martin J. Evans

32. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to 189 persons since 1901. Only 7 women !

33. 1947 - GertyCori 1977 - Rosalyn Yalow 1983 - Barbara McClintock 1986 - Rita Levi-Montalcini 1988 - Gertrude B. Elion 1995 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 2004 - Linda B. Buck

35. Egyptian Nobel Laureates in Medicine = Zero ???!!!!!!!

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48. What is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is all about ????