Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the beginning there was light. Light played an important role in the origin of life on earth, and the radiation of the sun is an absolute prerequisite for the forms of life…
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The first crystals of membrane proteins
An important step in biochemical research was taken in 1980 when Hartmut Michel managed to crystallize a membrane protein (bacteriorhodopsin) after having solubilized the lipid bilayer of the membrane with a detergent. Detergents, which are structurally similar to membrane lipids, form micelles in water. They bind to membrane proteins with their fatty, hydrophobic tails creating…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 1918 Fritz Haber awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Haber-Bosch process. 1932 Irving Langmuir awarded the first Nobel Prize for general surface chemistry. 1956 Cyril Hinshelwood awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, among other things for the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism for surface reactions. 1992 Ilya Prigogine awarded the Nobel…
moreHerbert A. Hauptman – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in New York City on February 14, 1917, the oldest child of Israel Hauptman and Leah Rosenfeld. I have two brothers, Manuel and Robert. I married Edith Citrynell on November 10, 1940. We have two daughters, Barbara (1947) and Carol (1950). My interest in most areas of science and mathematics began at…
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On being a scientist: A personal view
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On being a scientist: A personal view by John C. Polanyi1986 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry This article was published on 12 March 2001. Doing science Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.…
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