Chemistry
Chemistry becomes three-dimensional
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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Robert H. Grubbs – Biographical
Biographical
I was born at home in rural Kentucky in 1942, in a house that my father, Howard, had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye. In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
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…
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Award ceremony speech
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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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Scientific articles: ● Structural basis of transcription: An RNA polymerase II elongation complex at 3.3 Å resolution, by A. L. Gnatt, P. Cramer, J. Fu, D. A. Bushnell and R. D. Kornberg, Science 292, p. 1876-1882 (2001) ● Structural basis of transcription: An RNA polymerase II – TFIIB cocrystal…
moreCredits and References for the 2000 Nobel Poster for Physics
Editors: Prof. Thomas Hjertberg, Department of Polymer Technology, Chalmers University of Technology; Prof. Bengt Nordén, Chairman, Nobel Committee for Chemistry, and Eva Krutmeijer, Head of Information, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Tryckindustri, Solna 2000 © , P.O. Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Phone:+46 8 673 95 00, fax:+46…
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Scientific American (1986) Vol 255, 76-84. Trends in Biochemical Sciences (1989) Vol 11, 515-518. Journal of the American Medical Association (1988) Vol 260, 3030-3034. Advances in Enzymology (1989) Vol 62, 1-36. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (press release).
moreWhat is catalytic asymmetric synthesis?
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 (R)-alanine R refers to the Latin word rectus, meaning right. (S)-alanine S refers to the Latin word sinister, meaning left. When alanine is produced in a laboratory under normal conditions, a mixture is obtained, half of which consists of…
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