Chemistry
Wendell M. Stanley – Biographical
Biographical
Wendell Meredith Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, on August 16th, 1904. He began his advanced education at Earlham College and graduated Bachelor of Science in 1926 when he entered the University of Illinois, gaining a Master of Science degree in 1927 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1929. He continued at Illinois as a…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1930 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. “Blood is a very special liquid”, this was asserted some 140 years ago by Goethe. When writing these words and ascribing them to Mephistopheles he probably had in…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of t Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In his famous treatise on air and fire, published in 1777, Scheele writes that in some quarters at that time it was regarded as futile to make any more research into what…
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Press release
19 October 1983 has decided to award the 1983 Nobel Prize for chemistry to Professor Henry Taube, Stanford University, Stanford, USA, for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes. Chemistry prize awarded to one of the most creative contemporary workers in inorganic chemistry Chemical reactions were known to man…
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Award ceremony speech
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…
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