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Joseph L. Goldstein was born on April 18, 1940, in Sumter, South Carolina, the only son of Isadore E. and Fannie Alpert Goldstein. The family owned and operated a clothing store in Kingstree, South Carolina, a town of 5000 people. After his education in the primary and secondary public schools of Kingstree, Goldstein attended Washington…

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16 October 1985 has decided to award the 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Herbert A. Hauptman, The Medical Foundation of Buffalo, USA, and toProfessor Jerome Karle, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA, for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.   SummaryThis year’s Nobel Prize…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The youth of to-day find it quite natural that there are such things as atoms and molecules. They have often seen molecular models in school and experienced the molecule as something obviously existing. There…

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I was born in New York City on February 14, 1917, the oldest child of Israel Hauptman and Leah Rosenfeld. I have two brothers, Manuel and Robert. I married Edith Citrynell on November 10, 1940. We have two daughters, Barbara (1947) and Carol (1950). My interest in most areas of science and mathematics began at…

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…