Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
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 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994
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…
moreWilliam F. Giauque – Biographical
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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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The cell’s contact with the outer world The wall that separates a cell from its surroundings – the membrane – is not an impermeable shell. It is pierced through by various sorts of channel. The channels consist of proteins, each with its…
moreOtto Diels – Biographical
Biographical
Otto Paul Hermann Diels was born in Hamburg, Germany, on January 23, 1876. When he was two years of age the family moved to Berlin, where his father was appointed to a professorship. His early education, from 1882 to 1895, was at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium, Berlin. In 1895 he went to Berlin University where he…
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