Nobel Prize

17 October 1984 has decided to award the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Professor R. Bruce Merrifield, Rockefeller University, New York, USA, for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix. Summary R. Bruce Merrifield, Professor at Rockefeller University, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 1984 for his…

16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Richard R. Ernst, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Revolutionary developments make a spectroscopic technique indispensable for chemistry The 1991 Nobel Prize in…

13 October 1993 has decided to award the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the development of methods within DNA-based chemistry, with half to Dr Kary B. Mullis, La Jolla, California, U.S.A., for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, and half to Professor Michael Smith, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,…

12 October 1994 has decided to award the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor George A. Olah, University of Southern California, USA for his contributions to carbocation chemistry. Carbocations: from hypothetical intermediate products to well defined molecules Most of us can recall from our high school chemistry courses that many so called inorganic compounds,…

English 9 October 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, for their discovery of fullerenes. The discovery of carbon atoms bound in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gunnar Hägg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor William Lipscomb for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding. A couple of days after the announcement of…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and, Professor John A. Pople, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (British citizen). The Laureates have each made pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Professor Paul Flory for his fundamental contributions to the physical chemistry of macromolecules. Macromolecules include biologically important materials such as cellulose, albumins and…

Presentation Speech by Professor Arne Fredga of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The laureates in chemistry of this year have both studied reaction mechanisms, especially from a stereochemical, i.e. a geometrical point of view. In a chemical experiment some compounds are mixed, then something happens, and…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life is order, death is disorder. A fundamental law of Nature states that spontaneous chemical changes in the universe tend toward chaos. But life has, during milliards (American English billions) of years of…