30 Nobel Prizes: Discoveries That Changed Medicine

The world’s most famous and prestigious award—the Nobel Prize—is given every year for outstanding scientific research, revolutionary inventions, contributions to culture, or the development of society. This book will be about Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine. At the time the book was written, 210 prizes had been awarded to 219 laureates. From them, we selected 30—those whose works are widely used, whose significance is known to everyone, and whose core idea is understandable to any person without special education—those who are not indifferent to medicine and to their own health.

The discoveries are organized by themes and compiled into six chapters devoted to physiology, genetics, pathogens, medical methods, and pharmacology. You can start reading with any chapter—the topic that seems most interesting to you.