Chemistry
Georg Wittig – Biographical
Biographical
Ttranslation from the German text Born in Berlin in 1897. Doctorate and University Teaching Thesis in Marburg/Lahn from the Faculty of Chemistry. Head of Department at Braunschweig (Technical College) from 1932; Associate Professor at Freiburg/Brsg. from 1937; Professor and Faculty Director at the Institute of Chemistry, Tübingen, from 1944; turned down the same position as…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr Johann Deisenhofer University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA Professor Robert Huber Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, FRG Dr Hartmut Michel Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt/Main, FRG for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of…
moreDonald J. Cram – Biographical
Biographical
The beginning is distant, and was a time when we as a people were without much of the fruits of science that now refine our lives. But it was also a good time, when family and town were the domain of our existence. My father of Scottish, and mother of German extraction, migrated with their…
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The structure of a photosynthetic reaction center
In 1984, after having analyzed the X-ray diffraction pattern from the reaction center crystals, Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel could present the 3-dimensional structure of the reaction center, the first high-resolution structure of a membrane protein and also the most complex molecular structure which had been solved. The reaction center is composed of…
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