English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and, Professor John A. Pople, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (British citizen). The Laureates have each made pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Lindberg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The chemical reactions which take place in living organisms are not spontaneous, but require the involvement of catalysts. These catalysts are called proteins and are composed of chains of amino acids called peptides. A…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon is Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University in New York, USA.   Ion channels: Tiny molecular machines     In 1998 Roderick MacKinnon for the first time determined at high resolution the structure of an…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.       Photo: P. S. Howell, Rice University Prof Robert F. Curl Jr Rice University, Houston TX, USA Photo: Prudence Cummings Associates Prof…

The Loker Hydrocarbon building (east elevation) Photo: Adrian Velicescu Located at the heart of the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, California, the Loker Institute’s 43,000 square feet building features well-equipped state-of-the art laboratories and an attractive work environment. The George and Judy Olah library and the splendid reading room atop the building…

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Wendell Meredith Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, on August 16th, 1904. He began his advanced education at Earlham College and graduated Bachelor of Science in 1926 when he entered the University of Illinois, gaining a Master of Science degree in 1927 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1929. He continued at Illinois as a…