Chemistry

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Ernster of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The discoveries for which Peter Mitchell has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry relate to a field of biochemistry often referred to in recent years as bioenergetics, which is the study of…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 “for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules” with one half jointly to John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka “for their development of soft desorption ionisation…

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 jointly to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”. Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how plastic can be…

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Presentation

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Ahlberg, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, den 10 december 2005. Professor Per Ahlberg presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders majestäter, Eders kungliga högheter, mina damer och herrar Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi har skapat fantastiska möjligheter att bygga nya organiska molekyler. Det är…

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Press release

German 10 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2001 in Chemie für die Entwicklung der katalytischen asymmetrischen Synthese zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam zu verleihen an William S. Knowles St Louis, Missouri, USA, und Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan, „für ihre Arbeiten über chiral katalysierende Hydrierungsreaktionen“ und zur anderen Hälfte des Preises…

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Biographical

I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealand on April 14, 1927, and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, although I became a naturalized United States citizen many years ago in order to have the right to vote in US elections and, hence, voice my political opinions in a…

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