Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Ernster of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The discoveries for which Peter Mitchell has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry relate to a field of biochemistry often referred to in recent years as bioenergetics, which is the study of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Per Ahlberg of the , December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Per Ahlberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Science is exciting. At least I…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Andersson of the , December 10, 1989 Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The cells making up such living organisms as bacteria, plants, animals and human beings can be looked upon as chemical miracles. Simultaneously occurring in each and every one of these…

Presentation Speech by Professor Astrid Gräslund of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Astrid Gräslund delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What would life be without proteins! Proteins are…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Ahlberg, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, December 10, 2005. Professor Per Ahlberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Laureates in…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Thelander, Member of the , December 10, 2006 Professor Lars Thelander delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry is receiving the award because…

h Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Thelander, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, December 10, 2006. Professor Lars Thelander presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för att han lyckats skapa en molekylmodell av…

Presentation Speech by Professor Hj. Théel, President of on December 10, 1902 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has resolved to award the 1902 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Dr. Emil Fischer, Professor at Berlin University and Geheimrat, for “the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work…

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 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…