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The Nobel
Prize is an international award given yearly since 1901
for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature
and for peace. In 1968, the Bank of Sweden instituted
the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,
founder of the Nobel Prize.
The Prize Winners are announced
in October every year. They receive their awards (a prize
amount, a gold medal and a diploma) on December 10, the
anniversary of Nobel's death. |
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Alfred Nobel
was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was
descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical
genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in
northern Europe.
Nobel invented dynamite in 1866
and later built up companies and laboratories in more
than 20 countries all over the world.
On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed
his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel
Prize. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his home in
San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. |
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Alfred died
in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896. In his last will
and testament, he wrote that much of his fortune was to
be used to give prizes to those who have done their best
for humanity in the field of physics, chemistry, physiology
or medicine, literature and peace.
In 1901, the first Nobel Prizes
in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature
were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden and the Peace
Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. |
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| The first
Prize Award Ceremony in 1901 at the Old Royal Academy
of Music in Stockholm. |
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| Ferid Murad |
Dr. Murad was born in 1936 in Indiana. He earned his undergraduate degree in premedical science and chemistry from DePauw University in 1958 and received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Case Western University in 1965. Dr Murad was on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Medicine from 1970 to 1981, reaching the rank of professor. In 1997, Dr. Murad became the University of Texas-Houston's first chair of the Department of Integrative Biology, Pharmacology, and Physiology and the Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in 1999.
Dr. Murad's research focuses on the formation, metabolism, and function of nitric oxide and cyclic GMP in various cellular signaling processes. In the 1970s, Dr. Murad discovered that nitroglycerin relieves chest pain in heart patients by releasing nitric oxide. By 1992, Science magazine had named NO its "molecule of the year".
At the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Dr. Murad is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology. He, Robet F.Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro co-won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1998 for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system". He is not only active in scientific research but also in industrialization of medical findings.
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