12 October 1994 has decided to award the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor George A. Olah, University of Southern California, USA for his contributions to carbocation chemistry. Carbocations: from hypothetical intermediate products to well defined molecules Most of us can recall from our high school chemistry courses that many so called inorganic compounds,…

Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The preparation of complicated organic compounds from simple and inexpensive starting materials is one of the prerequisites of our civilization, the chemical era in which we live. Organic synthesis has given us efficient methods…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 13, 1994 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 Kenzaburo Oe “who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today” Kenzaburo Oe, now 59 years old, is Japanese, the scion of a prominent samurai…

Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In his novel The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe describes a scene which casts light over his entire œuvre. The narrator, Mitsu, living in a marriage which has not survived the birth of a…

It appears that I was born in hospital in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada on July 15, 1918. My first memories are of a farm near Milk River where I lived with my mother and father and my sister, Alice Evelyn, and a variety of farm and domestic animals. My father, Israel Bertram Brockhouse, had homesteaded with…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Bertram Brockhouse and Clifford Shull for their pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for the study of liquid and solid matter.…