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, Life is order, death is disorder. A fundamental law of Nature states that spontaneous chemical changes in the universe tend toward chaos. But life has, during milliards (American English billions) of years of…
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Speed read: Connecting Form with Function
Speed read
In chemistry, shape matters. For chemicals to function properly in the body it is not only important that the molecular components are connected in their correct order but also that these components occupy their correct three-dimensional positions in space. A wrongly positioned atom or structural element creates either an ineffective chemical, much like using the…
morePressmeddelande: Nobelpriset i kemi 2003
Press release
Swedish 8 oktober 2003 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2003 ”för upptäckter rörande kanaler i cellmembran” med hälften av priset till Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, ”för upptäckten av vattenkanaler” och den andra hälften till Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA ”för…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the area of quantum chemistry to Walter Kohn for his development of the density-functional theory and to John A. Pople for his development of computational methods for use in quantum chemistry.
moreWendell M. Stanley – Biographical
Biographical
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…
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