News

In Fight Against Trump, Harvard Goes From Media Lockdown to the Limelight

News

The Changing Meaning and Lasting Power of the Harvard Name

News

Can Harvard Bring Students’ Focus Back to the Classroom?

News

Harvard Activists Have a New Reason To Protest. Does Palestine Fit In?

News

Strings Attached: How Harvard’s Wealthiest Alumni Are Reshaping University Giving

Two From Harvard Faculty Receive 1934 Nobel Prize

King Gustav of Sweden to Make Awards in Stockholm

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Standing with three others before King Gustav of Sweden, two Harvard men, George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, and William P. Murphy '20, instructor in Medicine, receive today the 1934 Nobel Prize, awarded them for their discovery of liver extract as a remedy for pernicious anemia.

After a spokesman delivers an address in the new, Stockholm Concert House, telling why the awards in each academy are made, the king will bestow upon the winners the embossed diploma, gold medal, and check, emblems of the prize. At a dinner in the evening, the winners make informal speeches, while later in the week they attend a banquet given in the royal palace.

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags