Chemistry
John C. Kendrew – Biographical
Biographical
John Cowdery Kendrew was born on 24th March, 1917, in Oxford. His father, Wilfrid George Kendrew, was Reader in Climatology in the University of Oxford; his mother, Evelyn May Graham (Sandberg) Kendrew, was an art historian, for many years resident in Florence, Italy, where she published works on the Italian Primitives under the nom de…
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Nobelvortrag
Nobel Prize lecture
German gehalten am 2 Juni 1920 in Stockholm Hochansehnliche Versammlung! Die schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften hat die Darstellung des Ammoniaks aus Stickstoff und Wasserstoff der Ehrung durch Zuerkennung des Nobelpreises wert gefunden. Diese ausserordentliche Auszeichnung legt mir die Pflicht auf, die Stellung zu kennzeichnen, die die Reaktion im Rahmen des Faches einnimmt und den Weg…
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Presentation
Press release
The following account of Willstätter’s work is by Professor O. Hammarsten, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of By its property of making possible the assimilation of carbon dioxide under the influence of sunlight and hence introducing the synthesis of organic substances in the green parts of the plant, chlorophyll – as is well…
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Popular information
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 There is an increasing need for complex chemicals. Humanity wants new medicines that can cure cancer or halt the devastating effects of deadly viruses in the human body. The electronics industry is searching for substances that can emit light, and the agricultural industry wants substances that can protect crops.…
moreThe logic of chemical synthesis
Products such as plastics, synthetic fibres, paints and pigments, pharmaceuticals and pesticides and many others have become readily available through the dynamic development of organic synthesis (the science of building organic molecules). There are many ways to build a complex molecule from simple starting materials but to find the simplest way is often difficult. It…
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