Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The discoveries for which Ilya Prigogine has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry come within the field of thermodynamics, which represents one of the most sophisticated branches of scientific theory and is…

Presentation Speech by Professor Inga Fischer-Hjalmars of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The laureates in chemistry of this year have studied the theory of chemical reactions. Chemical reactions is something that fills our daily life. All of us are constantly starting chemical reactions, by turning the…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingmar Grenthe of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses. Ladies and Gentlemen, About thirty years ago, for the first time, we humans were able to view our planet from space. We saw white cloud formations, blue oceans, green vegetation and brown soils and mountains. From space,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nordén of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Bengt Nordén delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Photo: Hans Mehlin, Nobelprize.org   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, We chemists want to understand molecules…

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The achievements awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry demonstrate how the secret to constructing synthetic versions of chemicals from scratch is to work backwards. Elias Corey developed and refined a novel, reverse approach to synthesizing organic compounds – that is, compounds that contain carbon atoms – and in the process he transformed this discipline…

The 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewarded a prime example of how the bonds between different scientific disciplines can form in the most unexpected places. In this instance, a chemist’s curiosity for unusual interactions between molecules provided a crucial biological connection to understanding essential food nutrients important for health and disease. Richard Kuhn was fascinated…

Ever since it became clear that vitamins in food play an essential role in maintaining health and preventing diseases, these nutrients found themselves the subject of intense scrutiny by scientists eager to identify the active components and their chemical make-up. The 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewarded Walter Haworth and Paul Karrer for their individual…