Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1922 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most fruitful ideas in the chemical research of the last century was put forward in 1869, when the Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev drew up…
moreThe history of biocatalysis
1835 The Swede Jöns Jacob Berzelius describes a catalyst as a substance which can breathe life into slumbering chemical reactions. 1868 Friedrich Miescher, Switzerland isolates nucleic acids from white blood cells obtained from discarded bandages. 1877 Wilhelm Kuhne, Germany introduces the term “enzyme” and distinguishes between enzymes and bacteria. 1893 Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvia classifies enzymes…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 Editors: Per Ahlberg, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Per I. Arvidsson, Uppsala University, Jonas Förare, Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB, 2005 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2005 P.O. Box…
moreNature is chiral
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 The word chiral derives from the Greek word ceir (cheir), meaning hand. Our hands are chiral – the right hand is a mirror image of the left – as are most of life’s molecules such as (R)-alanine and (S)-alanine,…
moreThomas R. Cech – Article
Article
Exploring the new RNA world by Thomas R. Cech1989 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry This article was published on 3 December 2004. Not too long ago, most people considered RNA to be just a disposable copy of the really important nucleic acid, DNA. It is the double helix of DNA, after all, that shows up…
morePresentationstal
Award ceremony speech
h Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Thelander, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, December 10, 2006. Professor Lars Thelander presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för att han lyckats skapa en molekylmodell av…
moreCommuniqué de presse: Prix Nobel de Chimie 2000
Press release
French 10 octobre 2000 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2000 conjointement à Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Californie, Etats-Unis, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversité de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie, Etats-Unis, Hideki ShirakawaUniversité de Tsukuba, Japon «pour la découverte et le développement des polymères conducteurs» Des plastiques qui conduisent l’électricité Nous pensions…
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