Nobel Prize

Russian The speech was read by Andrej Kovaljov.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Elias J. Corey Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.    

I was born on December 9, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts. My parents were Henry P. Kendall, a Boston businessman, and Evelyn Way Kendall, originally from Canada. I lived in Boston until the early 1930s when the family – there were five, for by then I had a younger brother and a younger sister – moved…

Medicine Hat is a small town in Southwestern Alberta founded just over 100 years ago in a valley where the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed the South Saskatchewan River. I was born there on November 2, 1929 and raised in comfortable if somewhat Spartan circumstances. My father was the son of a Northern Irish carpenter and…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 Deep Inelastic Scattering: Comparisons with the Quark Model Pdf 299 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 Deep Inelastic Scattering: Experiments on the Proton and the Observation of Scaling Pdf 786 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years Pdf 1.12 MB

Richard E. Taylor’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1990 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall and I wish to express our heartfelt thanks for the distinguished honor bestowed on us today. We are fortunate that we and our co-workers were among the first to use the large…

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