2007
Clean exhaust
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 In the catalysts of cars poisonous carbon monoxide reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide before the exhaust is emitted. This reaction takes place on a surface of platinum, for instance. Ertl has shown that the reaction is considerably more complicated than could be expected and in this…
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Further reading
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 More information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 can be found at: ● Oscillatory Kinetics in Heterogeneous Catalysis, R. Imbihl, G. Ertl, Chemical Review 1995(95) 697–733 ● Primary Steps in Catalytic Synthesis of Ammonia, G. Ertl, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 1(2) 1247–1253 (1983)…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 Editors: Håkan Wennerström, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Annika Moberg and Andrea Westerdahl, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustration: Typoform Print: Katarinatryck AB 2007 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden tel: +46…
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Electronics
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 It is thanks to the semi-conductor industry that development of the new vacuum techniques required for advanced surface chemistry had already begun in the 1950s. When electronic components are assembled knowledge of surface chemistry is important. The ozone hole The ozone layer is damaged by reactions on the…
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English Biobibliographical Notes Doris Lessing was born on 22 October 1919 to British parents in Kermanshah in what was then known as Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor. Her father, Alfred Cook Taylor, formerly a captain in the British army during the First World War, was a bank official. Her mother, Emily Maude Taylor,…
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