Nobel Prize

In biological terms the processes that aid digestion, create vitamins and manufacture plant poisons affecting the heart might seem like being worlds apart, but in terms of their chemistry they show a remarkable degree of similarity. Establishing the chemical connections that lie at the heart of these biological processes can be said to be the…

The achievements by Deisenhofer, Huber and Michel that were recognized with the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry signify breakthroughs in several fields of research: Photosynthesis: The knowledge about the location of the photochemically active groups in the reaction center has resulted in a deeper understanding of the mechanism of the primary reaction in photosynthetic organisms.…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 to Gerhard Ertl “for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”. Photo: Wolfram Däumel, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Gerhard Ertl Born in 1936 in Bad Cannstadt, Germany. PhD in Physical Chemistry in…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the beginning there was light. Light played an important role in the origin of life on earth, and the radiation of the sun is an absolute prerequisite for the forms of life…

An important step in biochemical research was taken in 1980 when Hartmut Michel managed to crystallize a membrane protein (bacteriorhodopsin) after having solubilized the lipid bilayer of the membrane with a detergent. Detergents, which are structurally similar to membrane lipids, form micelles in water. They bind to membrane proteins with their fatty, hydrophobic tails creating…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 1918 Fritz Haber awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Haber-Bosch process. 1932 Irving Langmuir awarded the first Nobel Prize for general surface chemistry. 1956 Cyril Hinshelwood awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, among other things for the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism for surface reactions. 1992 Ilya Prigogine awarded the Nobel…