Nobel Prize

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Svante Arrhenius’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1903 (in Swedish) Eders K. Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Jag kan i denna högtidliga stund ej annat än ge uttryck åt den djupa tacksamhet, som besjälar mig på grund af vetenskapsakademiens beslut att tilldela mig den högsta vetenskapliga utmärkelse, som finnes. Denna tacksamhet…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1903 Development of the Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation Read the Nobel LecturePdf 133 kB   Pdf 3.34 MB

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1902 Syntheses in the Purine and Sugar Group Pdf 126 kB

Emil Fischer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1902 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten! Hochansehnliche Festversammlung! Bei der feierlichen Preisverteilung sind durch den Herrn Präsidenten der Königl. Vetenskaps-Akademien so viele schmeichelhafte Worte der Anerkennung an mich gerichtet worden, und das Gleiche ist soeben wieder durch den Herrn Prof. Cleve geschehen, dass ich mir…

Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, immigrated to New Zealand with Ernest’s grandfather and the whole family in 1842. His mother, née Martha Thompson, was an English…

Frederick Soddy, the son of Benjamin Soddy, a London merchant, was born at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, on September 2, 1877. He was educated at Eastbourne College and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 1895 he obtained a scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, from which University he graduated in 1898 with first class honours in…

Interview transcript I’m sitting here in Lindau in Southern Bavaria, this is the 50th anniversary of the Lindau so called Nobelpreisträgertagungen and I am sitting here with George Olah who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. I would like to ask you first, Professor Olah, could you tell us a…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1994 My Search for Carbocations and Their Role in Chemistry Pdf 2.25 MB

George A. Olah’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am most grateful for the honor bestowed on me today. Although receiving the Nobel Prize is the greatest satisfaction any scientist can experience, I consider it not only a personal acknowledgment, but also that of…