Chemistry

Biographical

Bruce Merrifield was born in Fort Worth, Texas, July 15, 1921, the only son of George E. and Lorene (Lucas) Merrifield. In the spring of 1923 they drove across the southwest desert to settle in California where they lived in several cities throughout the state. He attended nine grade schools and two high schools before…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1993 The Polymerase Chain Reaction In 1944 , stimulated intellectually by , published a little book called What is Life? It was an inspiration to the first of the molecular biologists, and has been, along with Delbrück himself, credited for directing the research during the next decade that solved the mystery…

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Press release

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…

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  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…

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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  

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Biographical

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…

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Biographical

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…

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