Chemistry

Interview

Interview transcript Professor Kohn, thank you for seeing us today, it’s very nice to meet you. You got the Prize in Chemistry 1998 and that took a few … that was quite a number of years after you did your remarkable discovery. How have you dealt with this prize, this award and…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, January 28, 1999 (a year later) Electronic Structure of Matter – Wave Functions and Density Functionals Pdf 2.23 MB

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Banquet speech

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, On this occasion I have much to celebrate. I rejoice in the opportunities I have had in many diverse branches of science over the past fifty years. Starting in mathematics, using fundamental principles of physics, aided by developing power of computer science I have…

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Banquet speech

Richard R. Ernst’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1991 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed a great moment for me to stand where I am standing to express my deep gratitude to the Nobel Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Obviously, most of the glory should fall on those…

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Interview

Interview transcript Dr Richard Ernst, welcome to this Nobel interview. You come from Zurich and from the very famous school there, University ETH where also have studied for about 100 years ago. But today you are very critical to the way the university function in the society. What are the major drawbacks…

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