many seats of medical research have recognized his work, and he has received the anders retzius silver medal of the swedish society for internal medicine (1946), the albert lasker award for basic medical research (1949), the john philipps memorial award of the american college of physicians (1952), the gold medal of the académie royale de médecine de belgique and of the académie nationale de médecine, paris (1956). he was elected doctor (honoris causa) of the universities of strasbourg (1957), lyon (1958), brussels (1959), pisa (1961), and d.sc. of the university of birmingham (1961).