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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 The Production and Properties of Positrons Pdf 182 kB

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Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1936 Methods to Determine the Electrical and Geometrical Structure of Molecules Pdf 72 kB

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Born October 16th, 1888, in New York City. Son of James O’Neill, the popular romantic actor. First seven years of my life spent mostly in hotels and railroad trains, my mother accompanying my father on his tours of the United States, although she never was an actress, disliked the theatre, and held aloof from its…

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Otto Loewi was born on June 3, 1873, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the son of Jacob Loewi, a merchant, and Anna Willstätter. After having attended the humanistic Gymnasium (grammar school) in his native town, he entered in 1891 the Universities of Munich and Strassburg (at that time part of Germany) as a medical student. Apart from…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1936 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Chemists have for long been expressing their conceptions of the construction of compounds of substances by stereochemical formulae which are meant to represent the reciprocal position of the…