Chemistry
Press release
Press release
19 October 1988 has decided to award the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Dr. Johann Deisenhofer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, Texas, USA (German citizen) Professor Robert Huber, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany and Dr. Hartmut Michel, Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt/Main, Federal Republic of Germany, for the determination of the…
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English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 All living matter is made up of cells. A single human being has as many as the stars in a galaxy, about one hundred thousand million. The various cells – e.g. muscle cells, kidney cells and nerve cells – act together in an intricate system in each one…
moreDudley R. Herschbach – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in San Jose, California on June 18, 1932, the first of six children of Robert and Dorothy Herschbach. My father was then a building contractor and later a rabbit breeder. His family had lived in this part of California for three generations; although our surname comes from a pair of villages in…
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Biographical
I was born in Amsterdam on December, 3, 1933, the son of Anna Gurk and Jozef Crutzen. I have one sister who still lives in Amsterdam with her family. My mother’s parents moved to the industrial Ruhr region in Germany from East Prussia towards the end of the last century. They were of mixed German…
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