2000
Arvid Carlsson – Biographical
Biographical
I grew up in an academic middle-class family. In 1926, when I was 3 years old, my father was appointed professor of history at the University of Lund, Sweden, and moved there with his family from Uppsala, Sweden. My mother had passed a master-of-arts examination and my father a Ph.D. degree at the University of…
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Paul Greengard – Biographical
Biographical
My paternal great, great grandfather emigrated from Koenigsberg, currently Kaliningrad, to St. Louis during the 1850s, a time of large-scale movement of Germans, including German Jews, to the Mid-Western United States. My paternal grandfather moved to Binghamton, New York, where my father was born. My father had success in vaudeville as a singer/dancer/comedian. He eventually…
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Press release
Press release
English October 10, 2000 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 jointly to Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, USA, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers” Plastic that conducts electricity We have been taught that…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nordén of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Bengt Nordén delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Chemistry! We all associate chemistry with test tubes, stinking…
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