Nobel Prize

15 October 1979 has decided to award the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Herbert C Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA and Professor Georg Wittig, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis. Nobel…

Ttranslation from the German text Born in Berlin in 1897. Doctorate and University Teaching Thesis in Marburg/Lahn from the Faculty of Chemistry. Head of Department at Braunschweig (Technical College) from 1932; Associate Professor at Freiburg/Brsg. from 1937; Professor and Faculty Director at the Institute of Chemistry, Tübingen, from 1944; turned down the same position as…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 Odysseus Alepoudhélis (pseudonym Odysseus Elytis) Odysseus Elytis’s name tells us a great deal about him as a person and a writer. Odysseus – the seafarer, the Homeric poem’s hero, alive with the spirit of freedom, with defiant intrepidity, enterprise, and an insatiable…

  Presentation Speech by Doctor Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the . Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, When , compatriot of this year’s Nobel prizewinner in literature, came here in 1963 to receive the same award, he presented at the airport a bunch of hyacinths each to the…

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Descendant of an old family of Lesbos, he was born in Heraclion (Candia) on the island of Crete, November 2, 1911. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the Athens University. His first appearance as a poet in…

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My parents, Lewis Glashow and Bella née Rubin immigrated to New York City from Bobruisk in the early years of this century. Here they found the freedom and opportunity denied to Jews in Czarist Russia. After years of struggle, my father became a successful plumber, and his family could then enjoy the comforts of the…