Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by former Councillor T. Nordström, President of , on December 10, 1913 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Alfred Werner, Professor in the University of Zürich, “for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules, by…

Presentation Speech by Doctor Å.G. Ekstrand, President of , on June 1, 1920 Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to confer the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1918 upon the Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at Dahlem near Berlin, Geheimrat Professor Dr. Fritz Haber, for his method of synthesizing…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Secretary of , on December 10, 1926 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Around the middle of the 19th century the English scientist Graham put forward a new principle of subdividing matter by classifying all substances into one of the two great classes: crystalloids and colloids. A…

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 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 W. Palmær, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1931 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Under Alfred Nobel’s will, the Nobel Prizes are to be awarded to those who have been of the greatest benefit to mankind and, particularly in respect of the…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G.Söderbaum, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1932 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Superficiality is a quality which has always had a bad reputation, not least within the field of science and among scientific practitioners. In these circumstances it may possibly arouse…

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1934 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. A short time ago a politician of prominent rank, when speaking on a festal occasion, remarked that at the present day it might appear to be an actual…

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1935 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. On the 10th of December, 1911, , a Polish chemist of world-wide reputation, wife of Professor , was present at the solemn Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony to receive…

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To the most important chemical compounds belongs a group of substances named carbohydrates. They have been so called because of their composition, which is such that they may be…