Nobel Prize

NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTETTHE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 9 October 1981 has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1981 with one half to Roger W. Sperry for his discoveries concerning “the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres” and the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten…

Birthplace and Family: Born August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry of Elmwood, a small suburb. Father was in banking; mother trained in business school and after dad’s death, when I was 11 years old, she became assistant to the principal in the local high school. One brother, Russell…

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19 October 1981 has decided to award the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Kenichi Fukui, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, and the other half to Professor Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions CHEMISTRY PRIZE AWARDED FOR INCREASING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHEMICAL…

I was born the eldest of three sons of Ryokichi Fukui, a foreign trade merchant and factory manager, and Chie Fukui, in Nara, Japan, on October 4, 1918. In my high school years, chemistry was not my favourite subject, but the most decisive occurrence in my educational career came when my father asked the advice…

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe. On July 18, 1937 I was born to Clara (née Rosen) and Hillel Safran in Zloczow, Poland. This town, typical of the Pale of the Settlement, was part of Austria-Hungary when my parents were born. It was Poland in my time and is…

Presentation Speech by Professor Inga Fischer-Hjalmars of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The laureates in chemistry of this year have studied the theory of chemical reactions. Chemical reactions is something that fills our daily life. All of us are constantly starting chemical reactions, by turning the…

  1905 Born on 25 July in Ruse, Bulgaria. Mother tongue Ladino(archaic dialect of Spanish). 1911 Moved to Manchester, England. First school. Earliest lessonsin English. 1912 Sudden death of his father. War breaks out in the Balkans. 1913 His mother moves to Vienna with her three small sons. German lessons from his mother. Elementary school…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 Elias Canetti Born in 1905, in the port of Rustschuk on the lower Danube, Elias Canetti belongs to a Sephardic family whose members, in 1492, were driven out of the town of Canete, situated between Cuenca and Valencia. For several hundred years,…