Nobel Prize

12 October 1994 has decided to award the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor George A. Olah, University of Southern California, USA for his contributions to carbocation chemistry. Carbocations: from hypothetical intermediate products to well defined molecules Most of us can recall from our high school chemistry courses that many so called inorganic compounds,…

English 9 October 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, for their discovery of fullerenes. The discovery of carbon atoms bound in…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and, Professor John A. Pople, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (British citizen). The Laureates have each made pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties…

English October 10, 2000 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 jointly to Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, USA, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers” Plastic that conducts electricity We have been taught that…

French 10 octobre 2000 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2000 conjointement à Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Californie, Etats-Unis, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversité de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie, Etats-Unis, Hideki ShirakawaUniversité de Tsukuba, Japon «pour la découverte et le développement des polymères conducteurs» Des plastiques qui conduisent l’électricité Nous pensions…

German 10. Oktober 2000 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 2000 gemeinsam zu verleihen an Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, USA Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA “für die Entdeckung und Entwicklung von leitenden Polymeren” Kunststoff, der Elektrizität leitet Wir haben gelernt,…

Swedish 10 oktober 2000 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi för år 2000 gemensamt till Alan J. HeegerUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan “för upptäckten och utvecklandet av ledande polymerer” Plast som leder ström Vi har lärt oss att plaster, till skillnad från metaller,…

12 October 1989 has decided to award the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Sidney Altman, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Professor Thomas Cech, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) – a biomolecule of many functions Summary This year’s Nobel Prize in…

English 10 October 2001 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2001 for the development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis, with one half jointly to William S. Knowles St Louis, Missouri, USA, and Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan, “for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions” and the other half to…

17 October 1978 has decided to award the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr Peter Mitchell, Glynn Research Laboratories, Bodmin, Cornwall, UK, for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory. NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY FOR BIOLOGICAL ENERGY TRANSFER Mitchell’s research has been carried out within…