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Nobel Prize in Medicine

Sweden · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records
1911–2022Date range
6Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1911

Allvar Gullstrand10 December 1911

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the medicine prize for research on optical refraction in the eye.

1955

Hugo Theorell10 December 1955

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the medicine prize for discoveries concerning oxidation enzymes.

1967

Ragnar Arthur Granit10 December 1967

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the medicine prize for research on visual processes.

1970

Ulf Svante von Euler10 December 1970

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the medicine prize for discoveries concerning nerve transmitters.

1981

Torsten Nils Wiesel10 December 1981

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the medicine prize for discoveries about visual information processing.

2022

Svante Paabo10 December 2022

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the medicine prize for discoveries concerning extinct hominin genomes and human evolution.

Names involved

Allvar GullstrandHugo TheorellRagnar Arthur GranitSvante PaaboTorsten Nils WieselUlf Svante von Euler

Provenance

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