Nobel Prize

Swedish har beslutat att utdela 1995 års Nobelpris i kemi till Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Tyskland (nederländsk medborgare), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences och Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA och Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA för deras…

German hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 1995 an Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Deutschland (niederländischer Staatsangehöriger), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences und Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA und Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, USA wegen ihrer…

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope. I then converted a bathroom, seldom used by the family, into a laboratory and spent hours…

Extremely low temperatures over Antarctica lead to the condensation of water and nitric acid to form “polar stratospheric clouds” (PSCs). Through chemical reactions on the surface of the cloud particles large quantities of chlorine and bromine, derived from CFCs and other industrially produced gases, are liberated. As the ultraviolet light increases during the spring months…

I was born on June 28, 1927, the second of three sons, in the small central Ohio town of Delaware, the home of Ohio Wesleyan University. My father and mother had moved there the previous year when he took the position of Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Department at Ohio Wesleyan. All of…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.     Paul Crutzen Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany Mario Molina Dept. of Earth…

Humans affect the earth’s environment by releasing substances that deplete the protective ozone layer. The Nobel laureates in Chemistry 1995, , and , clarified the mechanisms for the chemical reactions involved. The results have led to extensive limitations on the release of ozone-damaging substances. Read more about the ozone layer and: * * * Ozone…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingmar Grenthe of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses. Ladies and Gentlemen, About thirty years ago, for the first time, we humans were able to view our planet from space. We saw white cloud formations, blue oceans, green vegetation and brown soils and mountains. From space,…

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Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication For Mary Heaney I. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove…