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17 October 1984 has decided to award the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Professor R. Bruce Merrifield, Rockefeller University, New York, USA, for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix. Summary R. Bruce Merrifield, Professor at Rockefeller University, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 1984 for his…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text You Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Henry Taube has been awarded the 1983 Nobel prize in chemistry for his studies of the mechanisms of electron transfer-reactions, particularly of metal complexes. I will not, during these few minutes, try to give…

The two methods awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry changed the way in which chemists artificially created carbon-containing, or organic, compounds in the laboratory. Building such compounds is limited by the reactions that chemists have at their disposal to piece together or manipulate a series of carbon atoms to form more complex products. The…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003             Earlier Nobel Laureates of great importance in the development leading up to this year’s award:               1901 1909 1963 1991 1997 2003             1901 van’t Hoff receives the Nobel Prize in…

    Chemistry is not only test tubes and chemicals. In quantum chemistry, quantum mechanics is used to compute the properties of molecules and their interaction. This year’s laureates have made it possible to use the complex equations of quantum mechanics to study molecules and chemical processes with the help of computers. H2 H +…

Swedish 9 oktober 1996 har beslutat utdela 1996 års Nobelpris i kemi gemensamt till Professor Robert F. Curl Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K. och Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, för deras upptäckt av fullerener. Upptäckten av kolatomer bundna i form av bollar…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.