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Jaroslav Heyrovsky was born in Prague on 20th December, 1890, the fifth child of Leopold Heyrovsky, Professor of Roman Law at the Czech University of Prague, and his wife Clara, née Hanl. He obtained his early education at secondary school till 1909 when he began his study of chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Czech…

Luis F. Leloir was born in Paris of Argentine parents on September 6, 1906 and has lived in Buenos Aires since he was two years old. He graduated as a Medical Doctor in the University of Buenos Aires in 1932 and started his scientific career at the Institute of Physiology working with Professor Bernardo A.…

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…

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…

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…