YOUR MAJESTY, YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESSES, YOUR EXCELLENCIES,

LADIES AND GXNTLEMEN:

       I AM OVERJOYED IN RECEIVING THIS GREAT HONOR.

IT IS A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FCltZ ME TO SHARE THIS DISTINCTION

WITH I?MFESSCR ULF VON EULER AND SIR BERNARD KATZ.

       THIS AWARD CQdES AT A TIME WHEN OUR YOUNG AND

MANY OF OUR MOST INFLUENCLAL PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT BASIC

RESEARCH IS IRRELEVANT OR IS PUT TO EVIL USES. THE

SELECTION OF CwMfCAL NEURtJIXANSMISSION FOR A NOBEL PRIZE

TRIS YEAR, bfAKES OUR WORK HIGHLY VISIBLE TO THE GENERAL

PUBLIC AND GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW HOW MISINFORMED

AND MISTAKEN THEY ARE.   I THINK ME CAN EASILY DEMONSTRATE

THAT ALTHOUGH OUR WORK IS OF A FUNDAMENTAL NATURE, IT ALSO

GIVES US INSIGHT IN EXPLAfNING SUCH DISEASES AS MENTAL

DEPRESSION, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, HYPERTENSION AND DRUG

ABUSE.  IT CAN ALSO LEAD THE WAY TO THE TREATMENT OF THESE

mRRIBLE AFFLICTIONS.

I ALSO WANT TOTHANKTHE NOBEL PRILE COMMITTEE

FOR BRINGING THE ADRENERGIC AND CHOLINERGIC NERVWS SYSTEM

TOGETHER AGAIN.  THEY HAVE BEEN APART FflR TOO LONG. M2t=X?i
I WANT Ty OFFER MY PROFOUND
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