In 1963 the Nobel Prize in Medicine was shared by three experts on nerve cells. Two were from England and one was from Australia. Sir John Eccles, shown here, was the one from Australia.
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In 1970 the Swedish neuroscientist Ulf von Euler shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Von Euler is shown here. One of the other winners, Julius Axelrod, is shown on other pages in this site. Like Axelrod, von Euler was an expert on neurotransmitters.
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In 1932 the prize in medicine was shared by two scientific giants from the United Kingdom. This is Sir Charles Sherrington, an expert on the neuron.
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Shown here is the 1931 winner, Otto Warburg of Germany. Warburg made discoveries on cell respiration.
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In 1922 the prize was given to Otto Meyerhof of Germany. Meyerhof studied the metabolism of lactic acid.
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Shown here is Alan Hodgkin of England, who was one of the British scientists who shared the prize with Eccles. Both are now deceased, unfortunately.
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In 1953 Hans Krebs of England was awarded the prize in medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle. Krebs was born in Germany. The clipart is from the Swedish website.
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This clipart from the Nobel Foudation website in Sweden shows Edgar Adrian, another British expert on the neuron. Adrian shared the 1932 prize with Sherrington.
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This 1927 winner was one of the few cases where the Nobel committee used poor judgement. Dr. Wagner-Jauregg, a psychiatrist from Austria, was awarded the prize for malaria therapy. The patients were inoculated with malaria! Another case of poor judgement was the award to Antonio Egas Moniz of Portugal for lobotomy. One of Moniz' lobotomized patients shot him! After this the treament was considered a success and it moved to America!
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In 1962 James Watson, shown here, shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine due to his codiscovery of the molecular structure of DNA. Watson was from Harvard University.
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