Set of annual international awards, primarily 5 established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

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Paul Ehrlich: his Nobel Prize citation, 29 October 1908. Colour photograph.

Portrait of Otto Loewi in Boston, 1929

Pencil sketch of the DNA double helix by Francis Crick. It shows a right-handed helix and the nucleotides of the two anti-parallel strands.

King of Sweden presents Nobel prizes in Stockholm.

Henry Dale: Nobel prize awarded in 1936

Nobel prize awarded to Henry Dale in 1936

Hamilton Smith : Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology / Marc A. Shampo and Robert A. Kyle.

Nobel prizes that changed medicine / editor Gilbert Thompson.

Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.2 Nobel Prize Medicine 1905

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.29 Nobel Prize Chemistry 1938-1960

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Nobel Prize

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nobel Prize

Works from the collections

Hamilton Smith : Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology / Marc A. Shampo and Robert A. Kyle.

Nobel prizes that changed medicine / editor Gilbert Thompson.

Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.2 Nobel Prize Medicine 1905

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.29 Nobel Prize Chemistry 1938-1960

Nobel Prize

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nobel Prize

Works from the collections

Hamilton Smith : Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology / Marc A. Shampo and Robert A. Kyle.

Nobel prizes that changed medicine / editor Gilbert Thompson.

Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.2 Nobel Prize Medicine 1905

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.29 Nobel Prize Chemistry 1938-1960

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