Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Eberson of the Translation of the Swedish text Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, We like to think that everything worth knowing about the chemical elements is already known, and that carbon – one of our most thoroughly researched elements – could not possibly yield further important discoveries. Carbon…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gunnar von Heijne of the , December 10, 2003. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Gunnar von Heijne delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the days of Alfred Nobel, the…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Måns Ehrenberg, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2008 Professor Måns Ehrenberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Since its very beginning, molecular…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Lidin, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2011 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, For three millennia we have known that five-fold symmetry is incompatible with periodicity, and for almost three centuries we believed that periodicity was a prerequisite for…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Sven Lidin, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Unders tre årtusenden har vi vetat att femtalig symmetri inte går att kombinera med periodicitet, och under närmare tre sekler har vi trott att periodicitet är en förutsättning för…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Måns Ehrenberg, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2008 Professor Måns Ehrenberg presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Molekylärbiologisk forskning har från sin tillkomst varit fokuserad på den genetiska informationen i kromosomernas DNA-sekvenser. DNA-forskningen…

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Cederblom, President of on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most prominent features of natural science research in our day is the reciprocal action characterizing physics and chemistry, causing an important discovery in one of these sciences almost invariably to affect the…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, President of , on December 10, 1907 This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Eduard Buchner for his work on fermentation. For a very long time both chemists and biologists have always regarded it as a particularly significant achievement when it has been…

Presentation Speech by the former Rector General of National Antiquities, Dr. H. Hildebrand, President of , on December 10, 1909 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has resolved to award the former professor at Leipzig University and Geheimrat, Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1909 in recognition…

Presentation Speech by the Rector General of National Antiquities, Professor O. Montelius, President of , on December 10, 1910 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. At the meeting of 12th November, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Geheimrat Otto Wallach, Professor at Göttingen…