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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…

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.  

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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…

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…