Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was born in Vienna on April 1, 1865. His father, doctor Adolf Zsigmondy, had done a great deal to promote dentistry in Austria, had invented several surgical instruments and devices, and had published several scientific and medical works. He encouraged his four children’s interest in the natural sciences. He died when Zsigmondy…

Interview, May 2014 Interview with 2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Kurt Wüthrich, 27 May 2014. Trading swimming lessons for lab time. Grabbing Max Perutz’ attention. Kurt Wüthrich’s intense collaboration with Richard Ernst. Kurt Wüthrich’s work in simple terms. “Breakthroughs are unexpected.” Doubts and criticism from other scientists. Being…

English 11 October 1995 has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany (Dutch citizen), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA and Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Organic synthesis – the preparation of complicated organic compounds, using simple and cheap starting materials – is one of the prerequisites of our civilization, the chemical age in which we live. As late as…