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Presentation Speech by Professor O. Hammarsten, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1932 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The vast development of chemical science, especially in recent times, is based not only on new concepts and important discoveries, but also on improved experimental equipment and on…

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,…

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German 10. Oktober 2000 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 2000 gemeinsam zu verleihen an Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, USA Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA “für die Entdeckung und Entwicklung von leitenden Polymeren” Kunststoff, der Elektrizität leitet Wir haben gelernt,…

The genetic information flows from the DNA in our genetic material via RNA to proteins, which in turn construct cells with different functions. This principle is called the central dogma of the chemistry of life. It was previously believed that the nucleic acids DNA and RNA serve solely as carriers of the genetic information, whereas…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005     ● Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005: ● The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: ● The Royal Society of Chemistry: ● Chemical and Engineering News: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/ 8051/8051olefin.html and http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/ 8051/print/8051olefin2.html ● The Age of the Molecule, N. Hall., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1999…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001                   Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001, The Age of the Molecule, N. Hall, Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1999 Classics in Total Synthesis, K.C. Nicolaou and E.J. Sorensen, VCH, Weinheim, 1996 Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis,…