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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Press release
Press release
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…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text You Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Henry Taube has been awarded the 1983 Nobel prize in chemistry for his studies of the mechanisms of electron transfer-reactions, particularly of metal complexes. I will not, during these few minutes, try to give…
moreSpeed 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…
moreThe 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…
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