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Another important development during the 1960s and the 1970s were new magnet designs, based on superconducting materials. They gave higher and more stable magnetic fields leading to spectra with much better sensitivity and resolution. More complex systems could be studied. In order to move to very complicated molecules, however, the next breakthrough was necessary. Inspired…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Forsén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1991 is being awarded for methodological developments in an important spectroscopic field – nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Scientists usually refer to this method by its acronym, “NMR,” and…

16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Richard R. Ernst, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Revolutionary developments make a spectroscopic technique indispensable for chemistry The 1991 Nobel Prize in…

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Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 3, 1991 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 Nadine Gordimer “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity” The Swedish Academy has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1991 to…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, Permanent Secretary of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Art is on the side of the oppressed, Nadine Gordimer says in one of her essays, urging us to think before we dismiss this heretical idea about the freedom of art.…

Nadine Gordimer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1991 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Fellow Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before. He replied…

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