Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Secretary of , on December 10, 1926 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1926 to The Svedberg, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Uppsala, for his work on disperse systems. Almost…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Our epoch has witnessed the gradual replacement of traditional materials by synthetic ones. We have all seen that plastics can often substitute glass, porcelain, wood, metals, bones, and horn, the substitutes being frequently lighter,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The key substances of life are called enzymes. Everything we humans undertake – if we sit here enjoying the splendour of a Nobel ceremony, if we perform work, or even if we simply feel joy or…

In regard to von Baeyer’s work, Professor A. Lindstedt, President of , made the following statement, on December 10, 1905 A characteristic feature of chemical science is the close interaction between theory and practice, between pure science and technology, which is here assuming ever greater importance. This feature became especially prominent during the last decades…

Presentation Speech by Professor G. Hägg, Member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Exactly 50 years ago, a Nobel Prize was awarded which we have much reason to be reminded of today. was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize for physics for, according to the citation, “his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Throughout history, there has been a tendency for people to take a stereotyped view of their fellow men in other occupations or with different backgrounds. I think that we all would agree that these stereotypes are harmful, and yet…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Jan-Erling Bäckvall, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2010 Professor Jan-Erling Bäckvall presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för en metod att länka samman kolatomer, och denna metod har…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1929 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The fermentation of liquids containing sugar – there we have a chemical reaction older than all chemical science. The point of time when men first began to take…

Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, President of , on December 10, 1908 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year (1908) has been awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences to Ernest Rutherford, Professor of Physics at the Victoria University, Manchester (England), for his researches concerning…

  Presentation Speech by Professor H.A. Ölander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The chemists of older times were chiefly interested in how to produce substances from natural products which might prove useful; for example, metals from ores and the like. As a matter of…