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dated October 21, 1955: Nobel Prize for Medicine

The Caroline Medical Institute in Stockholm on October 20 awarded this year's Nobel Medicine Prize to Prof. Hugo Theorell, leading Swedish blood specialist. The 52-year-old Professor is the second Swede to receive the Medicine Prize and is honoured for "his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes." He is said to have come close to some of the foremost mysteries of life itself by explaining important features in the complicated mechanism of cell division and metabolism of cells. The research for which he was given the Prize dates back to 1934 when he succeeded in producing the "yellow enzyme."

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