Nobel Prize

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET October 1974 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1974 jointly to Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade for their discoveries concerning “the structural and functional organization of the cell”. The last 30 years have seen a new discipline, cell biology, appear and develop into…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Professor Paul Flory for his fundamental contributions to the physical chemistry of macromolecules. Macromolecules include biologically important materials such as cellulose, albumins and…

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15 October 1974 has decided to award the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Paul J. Flory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules THE CHEMISTRY OF PLASTICS This year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Paul J. Flory, has done epoch making research…

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Born in 1900 at Svartbjörnsbyn near Boden in the north of Sweden. Parents, Olof Petter J., stonecutter from Värmland, and Cevia Gustafsdotter from Blekinge. There were six children in the family, of whom E.J. was the next youngest. His father fell ill with silicosis about 1904, and E.J. was taken care of by his childless…

Harry Martinson: Catching the dewdrop, reflecting the cosmos by Ulf Larsson Introduction In October 1974 it was announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for that year had been awarded to and . In the pages of several Swedish newspapers, the announcement provoked indignant reactions. The Swedish Academy had awarded the Prize to two of…

Harry Martinson was born at Jämshög in 1904. He was left an orphan at an early age, and after a chequered childhood, in which the children’s homes and institutions were as numerous as the escapes, he went to sea at the age of sixteen, spending six years of his life on board various ships and…

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