The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

[Hans Mehlin]

PRESS RELEASE

Nobel Website on Internet starting October 5 ,1995

The Nobel Foundation will start a site on the World Wide Web
(http://www.nobel.se) on October 5, 1995. This website will be used to
announce the 1995 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or
Medicine, Literature and Peace and the Bank of Sweden Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The site has a searchable
data base listing previous Nobel Laureates and presents information
about Alfred Nobel, his will as well as the statutes, rules and
financial management of the Nobel Foundation. The Nobel Website will
be linked to computers at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
http://www.kva.se, the Medical Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska
Institute http://www.nobel.ki.se/mednobel.html, the Swedish Academy
http://svenska.gu.se/academy.html and the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
http://nobel.no/indexen.html to provide in-depth information about
different aspects of the prizes. The website that is now coming
on-line is a preliminary prototype version which will be upgraded in
stages during the coming year.

To receive information from this website by e-mail you may register
your e-mail address on a form now available on the Nobelserver
(http://www.nobel.ki.se/mail-list/).


Michael Sohlman
Executive Director
The Nobel Foundation


Carl-Olof Jacobson, Secretary General
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences


Nils Ringertz, Secretary
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute


Sture Alle=8En, Permanent Secretary
The Swedish Academy


Geir Lundestad, Secretary
The Norwegian Nobel Committee


1995-10-04

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1995, will be announced on
Monday, October 9, at 11:30 Central European Time, on the Nobel
Foundation WWW server (http://www.nobel.se) under the address
http://www.nobel.se/announcement95-medicin.html and in the newsgroup
bionet.announce.

Nils Ringertz, Secretary
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute