| Administrative History | The Scheele Lecture of the Pharmaceutical Society of Sweden was established at the Society's annual meeting in 1961. Named in honour of Swedish chemist and scientist, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, an invitation is extended annually to a scientist of high distinction working in the field of drug research, to give a lecture on his own investigations or a principal part of them.
Kosterlitz delivered the 1977 Scheele Lecture, 'In search of the ideal narcotic analgesic drug', at the Scheele Symposium on Pain Relief, University of Uppsala, 9 December 1977. The following day, he also attended the 1977 Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Stockholm, but significantly, did not receive an award: The 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was divided in two equal parts between Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally, on the one half, for their discoveries concerning 'the peptide hormone production of the brain' and Rosalyn Yalow, on the other, for the part she played in 'the development of radioimmunoassays of peptid hormones.' There was much speculation and some expectation within the scientific community that Kosterlitz and his colleagues ought also to have been recognised. |
| Description | Correspondence and papers regarding Kosterlitz's Scheele Lecture, June 1977 - January 1978, including:
Letter of invitation and correspondence regarding travel plans, itineraries, etc.;
One-page summary of Kosterlitz's lecture;
Draft lecture notes and slide list;
Abstracts of lectures delivered at the Scheele Symposium on Pain Relief, 9 December 1977;
Programme for the 'Solemn Festival of the Nobel Foundation', 10 December 1977. |