Chemistry

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Karl Myrbäck, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The 1970 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Dr. Luis Leloir for work of fundamental importance for biochemistry. Dr. Leloir receives the prize for his discovery of the sugar nucleotides and…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003         Credits     Editors: Gunnar von Heijne, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Bengt Nordén, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Typoform Printing: Tryckindustri 2003…

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to carbocation chemistry. George A. Olah, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, receives the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to carbocation chemistry.       George A. Olah was born 1927…

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Biographical

William Francis Giauque was born in Niagara Falls, Canada, of U.S. parentage, on May 12, 1895, the first of three children of William Tecumseh Sherman Giauque and Isabella Jane Duncan. He attended public grammar schools principally in Michigan. Following the death of his father, in 1908, the family returned to Niagara Falls, Canada, where he…

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