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1 Journal of Alexandria Medical Students
Mohammed Abd El-fattah
Fifth Year Medicine (Undergraduate)
Ooh…you will talk about Nobel
Prize; it's my dream….. Really, so
you know about it? …Ooh, of
course!!! Faithfully not so much …
Okay let's know about it …
The Nobel Prize is named after
Alfred Nobel, who made a fortune
in the munitions industry after
inventing dynamite. When he died
in 1896, Nobel’s estate was worth
more than 33 million kronor with
one year’s interest from the fortune
equal to the annual budget of
Sweden’s greatest university.
Nobel’s will, written in 1895,
dedicated the majority of this estate
to prizes for those who had
“conferred the greatest benefit on
mankind” by making “the most
important discovery or invention”
in the fields of physics, chemistry
and physiology or medicine. In
1901, five years after Nobel’s death,
the first Nobel Prizes were
awarded.
But, What about The Nobel Prize in
Medicine?
Alfred Nobel had an active interest
in medical research. Physiology or
medicine was the third prize area
Nobel mentioned in his will.
“The said interest shall be divided
into five equal parts, which shall
be apportioned as follows: /- - -/
one part to the person who shall
have made the most important
discovery within the domain of
physiology or medicine ...”
(Excerpt from the will of Alfred
Nobel)
In 1901, Emil von Behring was
awarded the first Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for his
work on serum therapy,
particularly for its use in the
treatment of diphtheria. The
Medicine Prize has subsequently
highlighted a number of important
discoveries including penicillin,
genetic engineering and blood-
typing. The Nobel Prize in
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Physiology or Medicine is awarded
by the Nobel Assembly at
Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
But, I don't tell me, who are the last
winner, and for what? …
Okay let's know about The Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2010 which was awarded to Robert
G. Edwards "for the development of
in vitro fertilization".
But in the next volume … keep in
touch...
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