The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001                     (Nobel Prize 1901) was one of the first to realize that molecules are three-dimensional. This year’s Nobel Prize has its roots in research carried out by the first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, J. H. van ‘t Hoff. In…

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Otto Wallach was born on March 27, 1847, in Königsberg, Germany, the son of Gerhard Wallach and his wife, née Otillie Thoma. His father was a high-ranking civil servant, who later became Auditor General at Potsdam. During his early school years at the humanistic “Gymnasium” at Potsdam, Wallach had a profound liking for history and…

Vincent du Vigneaud was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 18th May, 1901, the son of the late inventor and machine designer Alfred J. du Vigneaud and his wife, Mary Theresa. He studied under Professor C.S. Marvel at The University of Illinois and took his B.Sc. degree in 1923 and M.Sc. in 1924. During the year…

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Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, President of , on December 10, 1907 This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Eduard Buchner for his work on fermentation. For a very long time both chemists and biologists have always regarded it as a particularly significant achievement when it has been…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. “Scheele analyses the universe on the hearth”, it was thus that Tegnér on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Swedish Academy, described the most dazzling of the works of chemistry in our country…

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