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15 October 1974 has decided to award the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Paul J. Flory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules THE CHEMISTRY OF PLASTICS This year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Paul J. Flory, has done epoch making research…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”, with one half of the prize to Peter Agre “for the discovery of water channels” and one half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to   Michael Smith Canada, for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies   Kary B. Mullis USA, for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method  

Fritz Pregl was born in Laibach on September 3, 1869, and attended the local “Gymnasium” (grammar school), from where he proceeded to the University of Graz to study medicine. He received his M.D. in 1894, but even prior to graduation he became assistant lecturer for physiology and histology under Alexander Rollett, taking over the chair…

Glenn Theodore Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, on April 19, 1912. At the age of 10 he moved with his family to California, in 1929 he graduated at David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles as valedictorian of his class. He entered the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1929, and received the…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1993 Synthetic DNA and Biology Pdf 784 kB

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Ölander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Analytical chemistry is a science, fundamental not only to the other branches of scientific chemical research, but also to applied chemistry, the chemical industry. Further it is important for the other natural sciences, both…

17 October 1975 has decided to award the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Professor John Warcup Cornforth, England for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and with the other half to Professor Vladimir Prelog, Switzerland for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions Cornforth has been…

16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Richard R. Ernst, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Revolutionary developments make a spectroscopic technique indispensable for chemistry The 1991 Nobel Prize in…