Nobel Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the area of quantum chemistry to Walter Kohn for his development of the density-functional theory and to John A. Pople for his development of computational methods for use in quantum chemistry.  

    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 +…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to   Michael Smith Canada, for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies   Kary B. Mullis USA, for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method  

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…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.       Photo: P. S. Howell, Rice University Prof Robert F. Curl Jr Rice University, Houston TX, USA Photo: Prudence Cummings Associates Prof…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Sven Lidin, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Unders tre årtusenden har vi vetat att femtalig symmetri inte går att kombinera med periodicitet, och under närmare tre sekler har vi trott att periodicitet är en förutsättning för…

The Loker Hydrocarbon building (east elevation) Photo: Adrian Velicescu Located at the heart of the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, California, the Loker Institute’s 43,000 square feet building features well-equipped state-of-the art laboratories and an attractive work environment. The George and Judy Olah library and the splendid reading room atop the building…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to carbocation chemistry. George A. Olah, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, receives the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to carbocation chemistry.       George A. Olah was born 1927…

Another important development during the 1960s and the 1970s were new magnet designs, based on superconducting materials. They gave higher and more stable magnetic fields leading to spectra with much better sensitivity and resolution. More complex systems could be studied. In order to move to very complicated molecules, however, the next breakthrough was necessary. Inspired…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Måns Ehrenberg, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2008 Professor Måns Ehrenberg presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Molekylärbiologisk forskning har från sin tillkomst varit fokuserad på den genetiska informationen i kromosomernas DNA-sekvenser. DNA-forskningen…