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Interview transcript I’m very pleased to be sitting here with Professor John Pople at the Lindau meeting, the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Tagungen in Lindau. And let me first ask you, Professor Pople, how did you come to end up in science? Was there a family background in science? What…

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  Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Immeasurably Fast Reactions Pdf 1.26 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Some Fast Reactions in Gases Studied by Flash Photolysis and Kinetic Spectroscopy Pdf 1.01 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1967 Flash Photolysis and Some of Its Applications Pdf 579 kB

Manfred Eigen’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 (in German) Eure Majestät, Eure Königliche Hoheiten, meine Damen und Herren: In der Laudatio, die uns soeben bei der Verleihung des Chemie-Nobelpreises verlesen wurde, heißt es von „sehr schnellen Reaktionen”, „Störungen von (chemischen) Gleichgewichten”, „Blitzlichtphotolyse” und „(chemischer) Relaxation”. Nun, es war schon eine…

Ronald G.W. Norrish’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: As one who was brought up in the old tradition of chemical teaching when such names as Scheele, Priestly, Lavoisier, Berzelius and Liebig stood out as beacon lights along the road of…

George Porter’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentemen: It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow. When the honour is given to that…