the nobel week is an annual, international event the highlight of which is the nobel prize award ceremony in the concert hall of stockholm on december 10th, that is on the death-day of alfred nobel. it is a fascinating occurrence from both the scientific and social points of view, mainly because it puts the significance of science for society into bright focus. only one item on the entire agenda is compulsory for the laureates during this week, the nobel lecture. thus, each laureate has to deliver a lecture on the topic for which the prize has been awarded. the lectures are generally given on december 8th, that is before the prize award ceremony, so that the laureates can enjoy the festivities in a more relaxed way. . the laureates in physiology or medicine present their lectures at the karolinska institute, that is on the ground of the prize awarding institution. this gives the scientists and students at the institute a unique possibility, to enjoy presentations of some of the most significant contributions to biomedical science and also to meet the laureates personally. that is why these lectures have such a special atmosphere (video tape recordings of the lectures are kept in the nobel archives at the karolinska institute). ...
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Foreword Preface 1981 ROGER W. SPERRY， DAVID H. HUBEL and TORSTEN N. WIESEL Presentation Speech by David Ottoson Biography of Roger W. Sperry Some Effects of Discon necting the Cerebral Hemispheres Biography of David H. Hubel Evolution of Ideas on the Primary Visual Cortex， 1955—1978: A Biased Historical Account Biography ofTorsten N. Wiesel The Postnatal Development of the Visual Cortex and the Influence of Environment 1982 SUNE K BERGSTROM. BENGT I. SAMUELSSON and SIR JOHN R. VANE Presentation Speech by Bengt Pernow Biography of Sune K. Bergstr6m The Prostaglandins: From the Laboratory to the Clinic Biography of Bengt I. Samuelsson From Studies of Biochemical Mechanisms to Novel Biological Mediators: Prostaglandin Endoperoxides， Thromboxanes and Leukotrienes Biography of John R. Vane Adventures and Excursions in Bioassay: The stepping Stones to Prostacyclin 1983 BARBARA McCLINTOCK presentation Speech by Nils Rigertz Biography of Barbara McClintock The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1984 NIELSKJEILNE，GEORGESJ．F．KOHLER and CESAR MILSTElN Presentation Speech by Hans Wigzell Biography of Niels K．Jerne The Generative Grammar ofthe Immune System Biography of GeorgesJ．F．K6hler Derivation and Diversification ofMonoclonal Antibodies Biography of C&ar Milstein FroM the Structure ofAntibodies to theDiversification ofthe bTtmUneResponse 1985 MICI-LZEL S．BROW~'．JOSEPH L．GOLDSTEIN Presentation Speech by Viktor Mutt Biography of Michael S．Brown Biography ofJoseph L．Goldstein A Receptor-Mediated Pathway for Cholesterol Homeastais 1986 STANLEY COHEN，RITA LEVI—MONTALCINI Presentation Speech by Kersdn Hall Biography of Stanley Cohen Epidermal GrowthFactor Biography of Rita Levi—Montalcini TheNerveGrowthFactor：Thirty-FiveYearsLater 1987 SUSUMU TONEGAWA Presentation Speech by Hans Wigzell Biography of Susumu Tonegawa Somatic Generation ofImmune Diversity 1988 SIRJAMES W．BLACK,GERTRUDE B．ELION and GEORGE H．HITCHINGS Presentation Speech by Folke Sj6qvist Biography ofJames W．Black Drugsfrom Emasculated Hormones：The Princibles of Syntopic Antagonism Biography of Gertrude B．Elion ThePurinePathtoChemotherapy …… 1989 HAROLD E. VARMUS, J.MICHAEL BISHOP 1990 JOSEPH E. MURRAY, E. DONNALLL THOMAS
