Nobel Prize

English 12 October 1999 has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA for showing that it is possible with rapid laser technique to see how atoms in a molecule move during a chemical reaction. The Academy’s citation: For his studies of the transition states…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nordén of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Bengt Nordén delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Photo: Hans Mehlin, Nobelprize.org   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, We chemists want to understand molecules…

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French 12 Octobre 1999 a attribué le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 1999 au Professeur Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, États-Unis pour avoir montré qu’il est possible, grâce à une technique laser ultrarapide, d’observer le mouvement des atomes d’une molécule au cours des réactions chimiques. Motivation de l’Académie des Sciences: Pour…

English Biobibliographical Notes Günter Grass born 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr of Polish-German parents. After military service and captivity by American forces 1944-46, he worked as a farm labourer and miner and studied art in Düsseldorf and Berlin. 1956-59 he made his living as a sculptor, graphic artist and writer in Paris, and subsequently Berlin. In 1955…

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release September 30, 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature 1999 Günter Grass “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history” When Günter Grass published “The Tin Drum” in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral…

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