Chemistry

Interview

Interview transcript Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa, I’d like to welcome you to the Nobel E-museum and also to congratulate you to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa: Thank you. For the discovery and development of electrically conductive polymers, plastics. You’re some of the extraordinary…

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Banquet speech

Alan Heeger’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2000 Your Majesties, Nobel Laureates, Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Ladies and Gentlemen, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa and I are greatly honored to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery and development of conducting polymers”. We would like to dedicate these…

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Banquet speech

F. Sherwood Rowland’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My friends and colleagues, Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina, and I are most grateful for the honors bestowed upon us today, for the Nobel Prize is the ultimate in recognition in the scientific world. It is…

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