Chemistry

Press release

English 8 October 2014 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to Eric BetzigJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA, Stefan W. HellMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany and William E. MoernerStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA “for the development of…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 for having bypassed a presumed scientific limitation stipulating that an optical microscope can never yield a resolution better than 0.2 micrometres. Using the fluorescence of molecules, scientists can now monitor the interplay…

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Banquet speech

Frédéric Joliot’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1935 (in French) Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, Qu’il me soit permis au nom de Madame Joliot-Curie et de moi-même d’exprimer toute notre admiration et notre reconnaissance à l’œuvre fondée par Alfred Nobel, de remercier les savants suédois du grand honneur qu’il nous ont fait…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1935 Artificial Production of Radioactive Elements It is a great honour and a great pleasure to us that the has awarded us the Nobel Prize for our work on the synthesis of radio-elements, after having presented it to in 1903, and to in 1911, for the discovery of the radio-elements. I…

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Interview

Interview transcript – Hello. – Hello Avram. Congratulations to the prize. My name is Joanna Rose and I call from the Nobelprize.org, which is the official website of The Nobel Foundation. – Yes. – My congratulations to the prize. – Thank you. –…

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Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 6 oktober 2004 En mänsklig cell innehåller hundratusentals olika proteiner. Dessa har en rad olika och viktiga funktioner: som påskyndare av kemiska reaktioner i form av enzymer, som signalsubstanser i form av hormoner, som viktiga aktörer i immunförsvaret i form av antikroppar och genom att stå för form och struktur i cellen.…

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