Michael Smith’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1993 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Dr. Kary Mullis and myself, I would like to express our deep gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour that has been bestowed on us…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, President of , on December 10, 1912 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The aim of the scientist is, or should be, to extend the limits of human knowledge. However, the roads open to him are many and he can render service in his chosen field in…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and, Professor John A. Pople, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (British citizen). The Laureates have each made pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Lindberg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The chemical reactions which take place in living organisms are not spontaneous, but require the involvement of catalysts. These catalysts are called proteins and are composed of chains of amino acids called peptides. A…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon is Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University in New York, USA.   Ion channels: Tiny molecular machines     In 1998 Roderick MacKinnon for the first time determined at high resolution the structure of an…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Professor Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes.       Photo: P. S. Howell, Rice University Prof Robert F. Curl Jr Rice University, Houston TX, USA Photo: Prudence Cummings Associates Prof…

The Loker Hydrocarbon building (east elevation) Photo: Adrian Velicescu Located at the heart of the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, California, the Loker Institute’s 43,000 square feet building features well-equipped state-of-the art laboratories and an attractive work environment. The George and Judy Olah library and the splendid reading room atop the building…

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