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What is it that makes a dedicated scientist out of a kid with an everyday background? Is it the ungovernable forces that seem to shape all our lives, or is it the development of our own curiosity and tastes that tips the balance of randomness? I’ve always been puzzled by those questions and can’t claim…

Harold Pinter did not submit an autobiography.

German Biobibliographische Notiz Harold Pinter wurde am 10. Oktober 1930 als Sohn eines jüdischen Damenschneiders in Hackney, London geboren. Er mußte in den Jahren seines Heranwachsens antisemitische Stimmungen fühlen, was, wie er selbst betont hat, für seine Entwicklung zum Dramatiker von Bedeutung war. Beim Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde er als Neunjähriger aus London evakuiert…

I was born in Berne, a northeast Indiana farming community proud of its Swiss heritage. Life was not easy for my parents, Noah J. Schrock, the second of six children, and Martha A. Habegger, the second of ten children. They married in 1933 during the Depression. My oldest brother, Luther, was born in 1934, Theodore…

I was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 30, 1941. My parents had moved there from their native Breslau a few years earlier. As far as I can tell, I am the only academic in our family. My father Karl Hänsch was a businessman engaged in the export of farming machinery, while my mother Marta…

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Swedish 5 oktober 2005 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2005 gemensamt till Yves Chauvin Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, Frankrike, Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA och Richard R. Schrock Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA “för utveckling av metates-metoden inom organisk syntes”. Metates – en…

French 5 octobre 2005 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie pour l’année 2005 conjoitement à Yves Chauvin Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France, Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, Etats-Unis et Richard R. Schrock Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, Etats-Unis « pour le développement de la métathèse…

English 5 October 2005 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France, Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA and Richard R. Schrock Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA “for the development of the metathesis method…