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I was born on October 2nd 1917, in Thames-Ditton, near London. My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of…

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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…

  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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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…

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…

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