Nobel Prize

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007   It is thanks to the semi-conductor industry that development of the new vacuum techniques required for advanced surface chemistry had already begun in the 1950s. When electronic components are assembled knowledge of surface chemistry is important. The ozone hole The ozone layer is damaged by reactions on the…

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14 October 1987 has decided to award the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Donald J. Cram, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, to Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, and College de France, Paris, France, and to former research chemist Charles J. Pedersen, Du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware, USA for their development…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Forsén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A burning flame – a little everyday miracle that has astonished and fascinated most of us. A chemical reaction that produces heat and light and that during historical times has modified the conditions of…

Life on earth is dependent on photosynthesis, the process in which solar light is converted into chemical energy and stored as carbohydrates. The carbohydrates are, finally, degraded to carbon dioxide and water in the cell respiration in a reaction requiring molecular oxygen. The liberated energy is utilized to power the life processes. In photosynthesis, the…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007   In the Haber-Bosch process nitrogen is extracted from the air to form ammonia. This is an important stage in the production of artificial fertilizers and the process won Fritz Haber the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Even though the chemical process has been known for a long time,…