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Nobel Prize, Stockholm Sweden
December 5 - 14, 2005
Barry J Marshall - Robin Warren co recipients, Medicine
The Medal for
Physiology or Medicine
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The medal of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska
Institute represents the Genius of Medicine holding an
open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from
a rock in order to quench a sick girl's thirst.
The inscription reads:
Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes
loosely translated "And they who bettered life on earth by
new found mastery." (Word for word: inventions enhance life
which is beautified through art.)
The words are taken from Vergilius Aeneid, the 6th song,
vers 663;
Lo, God-loved poets, men who spake things worthy Phoebus'
heart;
and they who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery
The name of the laureate is engraved on the plate below the
figures, and the text "REG. UNIVERSITAS MED. CHIR. CAROL."
stands for the Karolinska Institute.
Designed by Erik Lindberg
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