Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H. G. Söderbaum, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1922 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As we have just seen, the conception of isotopy has mainly developed out of our knowledge of the radioactive elements, their coming into existence, their transformation, and…
moreGeorg 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…
moreThe 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…
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