Chemistry
Speed read: Creating carbon connections
Speed read
The two methods awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry changed the way in which chemists artificially created carbon-containing, or organic, compounds in the laboratory. Building such compounds is limited by the reactions that chemists have at their disposal to piece together or manipulate a series of carbon atoms to form more complex products. The…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Earlier Nobel Laureates of great importance in the development leading up to this year’s award: 1901 1909 1963 1991 1997 2003 1901 van’t Hoff receives the Nobel Prize in…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
Chemistry is not only test tubes and chemicals. In quantum chemistry, quantum mechanics is used to compute the properties of molecules and their interaction. This year’s laureates have made it possible to use the complex equations of quantum mechanics to study molecules and chemical processes with the help of computers. H2 H +…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i kemi 1996
Press release
Swedish 9 oktober 1996 har beslutat utdela 1996 års Nobelpris i kemi gemensamt till Professor Robert F. Curl Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K. och Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, för deras upptäckt av fullerener. Upptäckten av kolatomer bundna i form av bollar…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1919
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreJaroslav Heyrovsky – Biographical
Biographical
Jaroslav Heyrovsky was born in Prague on 20th December, 1890, the fifth child of Leopold Heyrovsky, Professor of Roman Law at the Czech University of Prague, and his wife Clara, née Hanl. He obtained his early education at secondary school till 1909 when he began his study of chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Czech…
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