Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Professor Sara Snogerup Linse, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2012. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen,…
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Herbert C. Brown – Biographical
Biographical
My parents, Charles Brovarnik and Pearl Gorinstein, were born in Zhitomir in the Ukraine and came to London in 1908 as part of the vast Jewish immigration in the early part of this century. They were married in London. In 1909 my sister, Ann, was born. I arrived on May 22, 1912. In June 1914…
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Peter Agre – Biographical
Biographical
Ancestral originsIn 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. The Homestead Act offered new arrivals from other countries the opportunity to stake and develop farms of 160 acres by simply working the land for five years. Although they…
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