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Konrad Bloch – Biographical
Biographical
Konrad E. Bloch was born on 21st January 1912, in Neisse, Upper Silesia, then Germany, the son of Fritz Bloch and his wife Hedwig, née Striemer. He attended the elementary school and the Real gymnasium in the same city and in 1930 went to Munich to study chemistry at the Technische Hochschule. He became soon…
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Feodor Lynen – Biographical
Biographical
Feodor Lynen was born in Munich on 6 April 1911, the son of Wilhelm Lynen, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Munich Technische Hochschule. His mother, Frieda, was the daughter of the manufacturer Gustav Prym. Lynen completed his primary and secondary schooling in Munich, and in 1930 matriculated at the chemistry department of Munich University.…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor G. Hägg, Member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Exactly 50 years ago, a Nobel Prize was awarded which we have much reason to be reminded of today. was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize for physics for, according to the citation, “his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays…
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Jean-Paul Sartre – Biographical
Biographical
Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980) born in Paris in 1905, studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1924 to 1929 and became Professor of Philosophy at Le Havre in 1931. With the help of a stipend from the Institut Français he studied in Berlin (1932) the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. After further teaching at…
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