I was born 1933 in Winterthur, Switzerland, where our ancestors resided at least since the 15th century. We lived in a home built in 1898 by my grandfather, a merchant. My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. I had the great luck to grow up,…

I was born on September 30 1939 in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ and became later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Chemistry has its origins far back in the cultural development of mankind. The search for the laws governing the structure of and changes in the material universe has followed many, now and then rather curious, paths. The…

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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