Nobel Prize

German 12 Oktober 1999 hat den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 1999 verliehen an Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA weil er nachgewiesen hat, daß man mit Hilfe schneller Laser-Technik sehen kann, wie sich Atome während einer chemischen Reaktion in einem Molekül bewegen. Entscheidung der Akademie der Wissenschaften: Für seine…

Swedish har beslutat att utdela 1995 års Nobelpris i kemi till Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Tyskland (nederländsk medborgare), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences och Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA och Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA för deras…

German hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 1995 an Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Deutschland (niederländischer Staatsangehöriger), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences und Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA und Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, USA wegen ihrer…

Broadcast Lecture by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Among Johannes V. Jensen’s prose works Den lange rejse (1908-22) [The Long Journey] stands foremost in popular estimation. The theme of this immense epic is man’s development from the soulless and inarticulate herd-life when more than any other creature he was a prey…

14 October 1992 has decided to award the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems A theory close to reality Professor Rudolph A. Marcus is being rewarded for his theoretical work on…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 Odysseus Alepoudhélis (pseudonym Odysseus Elytis) Odysseus Elytis’s name tells us a great deal about him as a person and a writer. Odysseus – the seafarer, the Homeric poem’s hero, alive with the spirit of freedom, with defiant intrepidity, enterprise, and an insatiable…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania, in 1911, to a family with a background of ancient lineage and in an environment in which primitive folk traditions lived on together with a complex historical heritage. Industrialization had not made itself felt…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1985 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 Claude Simon Claude Simon began to be noticed in earnest at the end of the 1950s in connection with the great interest in the so-called “new novel” in France. The term had been introduced by the critic Roland Barthes and…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1986 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 Wole Soyinka This year’s Nobel Prize in literature goes to an African writer, Wole Soyinka from Nigeria. Now in his early fifties, he has a large and richly varied literary production behind him and is in his prime as an…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 1987 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 Joseph Brodsky This year’s Nobel Prize winner in Literature was born in Leningrad and lives in New York. Aged only 47 he is one of the youngest ever to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. A sign of…