English 9 October 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, for their discovery of fullerenes. The discovery of carbon atoms bound in…

I was born in Alice, Texas on August 23, 1933. My father was a Methodist minister, and my mother was what we then called a housewife. I have a sister, Mary, who is some years my elder. In those days, Methodist ministers moved often, and as a child I lived in a succession of mostly…

Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Eberson of the Translation of the Swedish text Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, We like to think that everything worth knowing about the chemical elements is already known, and that carbon – one of our most thoroughly researched elements – could not possibly yield further important discoveries. Carbon…

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Swedish 9 oktober 1996 har beslutat utdela 1996 års Nobelpris i kemi gemensamt till Professor Robert F. Curl Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K. och Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, för deras upptäckt av fullerener. Upptäckten av kolatomer bundna i form av bollar…

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Presentation Speech by Mrs Birgitta Trotzig, Writer, Member of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, How are we to live after the adulteration, demise, and disintegration of the great utopias? – we ask ourselves now, looking toward the year 2000. How are we to live after the…

Wisława Szymborska was born in Kórnik in Western Poland on 2 July 1923. Since 1931 she has been living in Krakow, where during 1945-1948 she studied Polish Literature and Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. Szymborska made her début in March 1945 with a poem “Szukam slowa” (I am Looking for a Word) in the daily…

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A domestication of death: The poetic universe of Wisława Szymborska by Malgorzata Anna Packalén This article was published on 26 February 2004. Strong relativism and openness are well known to be important dimensions in the temporal sphere at the basis of ‘s poetry. The way in which she links the past with the present, the…