Chemistry

Biographical

I was born in New York on June 30, 1926 and my formative years were spent in a small, gated community named Sea Gate, at the southernmost tip of Brooklyn. By the time I reached Jr. high school I had already formed a strong ambition to be a scientist, in part stimulated by my readings…

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In this compilation of short, educational videos called Chemistry matters, 16 Nobel Prize laureates discuss new frontiers in their field and explore what life as a chemist entails. They also describe the beauty inherent in chemistry and recall the eureka moments when they discovered ‘a little of nature’s logic’. Chemistry matters: Beyond the textbook Learn…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Dr. E.W. Dahlgren, Head Librarian of the National Library, President of , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences, at the session on the 7th of November of this year, decided to award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1911 to Madame…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007   Editors: Håkan Wennerström, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Annika Moberg and Andrea Westerdahl, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustration: Typoform Print: Katarinatryck AB 2007 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden tel: +46…

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Biographical

I was born on March 21, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. My father, Richard V. Gilbert, an economist, was at that time at Harvard University. He worked for the Office of Price Administration during the second World War and later headed up a planning group advising the Pakistani government. My mother, Emma Cohen, was a child…

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