German 10. Oktober 2007 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2007 für Chemie zu verleihen an Gerhard Ertl Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Deutschland „für seine Studien von chemischen Verfahren auf festen Oberflächen“. Moderne Oberflächenchemie – Brennstoffzellen, Kunstdünger und Abgasreinigung Der diesjährige Chemiepreis zeichnet grundlegende Arbeiten innerhalb der Oberflächenchemie aus. Diese Wissenschaft ist wichtig für die…

English 10 October 2007 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 to Gerhard Ertl Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany “for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”. Modern surface chemistry – fuel cells, artificial fertilizers and clean exhaust The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 is awarded for groundbreaking studies…

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The following account of Kuhn’s work has been made. When Richard Kuhn in 1926 took over the Chair for General and Analytical Chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich he set in motion a comprehensive series of investigations into the so-called conjugated double bonds which make up the essential arrangement of the atoms of…

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Interview transcript [Brian Kobilka] Hello. [Adam Smith] Oh hello, may I speak to Brian Kobilka please? [BK] Speaking. [AS] Oh hello, this is Adam Smith, calling from Nobelprize.org, the website of the Nobel Prize. We have a tradition of recording extremely short interviews with new Laureates.…

Interview transcript [Robert Lefkowitz] Hello. [Adam Smith] Hello there, this is Adam Smith from Nobelprize.org [RL] Yes [AS] So, we have a tradition of interviewing new Laureates very briefly for the website. Could we talk for just a very few…