Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1936 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Chemists have for long been expressing their conceptions of the construction of compounds of substances by stereochemical formulae which are meant to represent the reciprocal position of the…

Robert Sanderson Mulliken was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on June 7, 1896, the son of Samuel Parsons Mulliken, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Katherine W. Mulliken. He married Mary Helen von Noè, December 24, 1929. Their children are Lucia Maria (Mrs. John P. Heard) and Valerie Noè. Mulliken took a B.Sc. Degree in 1917 at…

I was born February 20, 1937 in München as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber. My father was cashier at a bank and my mother kept the house and brought up the children, me and my younger sister, a difficult task during the war, a continuous struggle for some milk and bread and…

Translation from the French text In his memorable series “Etudes sur le temps humain”, Georges Poulet devoted one volume to the “Mesure de l’instant”. There he proposed a classification of authors according to the importance they give to the past, present and future. I believe that in such a typology my position would be an…

In regard to Richards’ work Professor H.G. Söderbaum, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , made the following statement The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences resolved in 1915 to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 1914 to Theodore William Richards, Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., in recognition of…

French 10 octobre 2001 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2001 pour le développement de la synthèse asymétrique catalytique, pour moitié collectivement à William S. Knowles Saint-Louis, Missouri, USA, et à Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japon, “pour leurs travaux sur les réactions d’hydrogénation catalysées par chiralité”, et pour l’autre…

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