Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The body and soul of man is the most complex and refined chemical machine that we know. Even the simplest forms of life, for example bacteria, are almost immeasurably intricate systems compared to…
morePressemitteilung: Der Nobelpreis in Chemie 2003
Press release
German 8. Oktober 2003 hat beschlossen, dass der Nobelpreis in Chemie des Jahres 2003 „für Entdeckungen bezüglich der Kanäle in Zellmembranen“ verliehen wird, mit der einen Hälfte des Preises an Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, U.S.A. „für die Entdeckung von Wasserkanälen“ und mit der anderen Hälfte an Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes…
moreJohann Deisenhofer – Biographical
Biographical
I was born on September 30, 1943 in Zusamaltheim, Bavaria, now Federal Republic of Germany, as the first son of Thekla and Johann Deisenhofer. After my father’s return from military service my parents ran the family farm. In 1948, our family grew to its final size with the birth of my only sister, Antonie. My…
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Sir Cyril Hinshelwood – Biographical
Biographical
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was born in London on June 19, 1897. He was educated at Westminster City School and Oxford University where he gained Master of Arts and Doctor of Science degrees. He held successive fellowships at Balliol, Trinity, and Exeter Colleges; he was tutor of Trinity College from 1921 to 1937 and since…
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