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Paul Karrer’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1937 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, meine verehrten Damen u. Herren, Für die hohe Auszeichnung, welche die Königliche Schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften mir heute verliehen hat, spreche ich ihr meinen ehrerbietij und wärmsten Dank aus. Es war mir eine grosse Freude, dass meine wiss schaftlichen…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1937 Carotenoids, Flavins and Vitamin A and B2 Pdf 198 kB

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937 Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer Nominated on 28 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 7 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Paul Karrer – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Paul Karrer was born in Moscow on April 21, 1889. His parents, Paul Karrer and Julie Lerch, were Swiss nationals and in 1892 the family returned to Switzerland where he received his early education at Wildegg and at the grammar school in Lenzburg, Aarau, where he matriculated in 1908. He studied chemistry at University of…

Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double bonds and biological mechanisms On October 1, 1929, became first of the four KWImF research directors to move into the new laboratory on the banks of the Neckar River. At twenty-eight years of age, he was also by far the youngest. In addition to a growing reputation as…

Norman Haworth’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1937 Your Royal Highnesses. My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, My first words must be those of gratitude to the Swedish Academy for the encouragement which this award has brought to me in my endeavours to advance the bounds of knowledge by my labours. In…

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim. I was born (February 26, 1946) in nearby Damanhur, the “City of Horus”, only 60 km from Alexandria. In retrospect, it is remarkable that my childhood…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947 Sir Robert Robinson Nominated on 51 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 13 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Sir Robert Robinson – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.