Chemistry

Interview

Interview transcript Professor Zewail, let me first congratulate you to this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for your pioneering work on femtosecond spectroscopy. Would you like to tell how you got started in this interesting field that you have developed? Ahmed Zewail: Well, you know, Professor Forsén, you know everybody thinks some…

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Interview

Interview transcript Thank you for coming to this interview and I’m sure this question has been put to you so many times before, but I’m going to do it anyway. The question is, of course, when you were out driving the car and you realised that you’d cracked it, you know that…

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Interview

Transcript from an interview with Roger D. Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, on 6 December 2006. Interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Roger Kornberg, welcome back to Stockholm. Roger Kornberg: Thank you. I gather you know the town quite well having been here…

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Interview

Nobel Prize Talks: Roger D. Kornberg Released 2014-04-24 This conversation with Roger Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was recorded during the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative events in Gothenburg. Here he discusses the importance of language, the benefits of frequent failure, and how he developed the art of focusing deeply on a problem. [qbank-video legacy_id=”78″…

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Biographical

I was born on January 15, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three sons of Vivian and Eli Chalfie (Figure 1). In trying to reconstruct the events that led me to this opportunity to write an autobiographical essay, I realize how much chance, luck, the influence of others, and, in some cases, my own…

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Award ceremony speech

English Presentation Speech by Professor Måns Ehrenberg, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2009 Professor Måns Ehrenberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Chemistry Prize rewards…

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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Måns Ehrenberg, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2009 Professor Måns Ehrenberg presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpris i kemi belönar studier av en av livets mest komplicerade molekylära maskiner, den så…

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