Nobel Prize

Henry Taube’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honor to represent the science professed by Alfred Nobel, an honor enhanced by the presence here of so many of the Nobel family. My friend professor Lindqvist earlier today referred to chemistry as a…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1983 Electron Transfer between Metal Complexes – Retrospective Pdf 812 kB

Born: Neudorf, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1915; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1942.   Education B.S.: 1935, University of Saskatchewan M.S.: 1937, University of Saskatchewan (Research Supervisor, Prof. J.W.T. Spinks) Ph.D.: 1940, University of California, Berkeley (Research Supervisor, Prof. W.C. Bray) Professional Experience Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1940-41 Instructor and Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1941-46 Assistant Professor, Associate…

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Interview transcript What is science and what is science in relation to other ways for humans to deal with the wonders of life, like literature and poetry or music or arts or religion. This is what we are going to talk about today. Welcome to this interview Roald Hoffman. Maybe we will…

Kenichi Fukui’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the privilege to speak on behalf of Professor Roald Hoffmann and myself and to express first of all our deepest gratitude for the high honour and warm hospitality that have been given us on this…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1981 The Role of Frontier Orbitals in Chemical Reactions Pdf 166 kB

Nobel lecture, 8 December 1981 Building Bridges between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry   Pdf 308 kB

Roald Hoffmann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Students of Stockholm, Students of all Sweden! I salute you for all that you represent: For your youth, your beauty and your strength – symbolic of mankind’s constant renewal! For your devotion to knowledge, your…