Chemistry

Award ceremony speech

English Presentation Speech by Professor Gunnar Karlström, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2013. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s…

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Award ceremony speech

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Gunnar Karlström, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2013. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina Damer o Herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i Kemi , och har utvecklat metoder baserade på fysikaliska modeller…

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Other resources

The Laureates Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Biographical Sketch – Richard R. Schrock, MIT news office   Metathesis , Royal Society of Chemistry   Olefin Metathesis Olefin Metathesis: the early days, Chemical & Engineering News Olefin Metathesis in Organic Synthesis (pdf), MacMillan Group, Caltech…

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Biographical

Frederick Sanger was born on August 13, 1918, at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, the second son of Frederick Sanger, M.D., a medical practitioner and his wife Cicely. He was educated at Bryanston School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in natural sciences in 1939. Since 1940 he has carried out…

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Biographical

I was born on 13th August 1918 in the village of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire, where my father, also Frederick Sanger, was a medical practitioner. Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of…

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