English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Ahlberg, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, December 10, 2005. Professor Per Ahlberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Laureates in…

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h Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Thelander, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, December 10, 2006. Professor Lars Thelander presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för att han lyckats skapa en molekylmodell av…

French 10 octobre 2000 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2000 conjointement à Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Californie, Etats-Unis, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversité de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie, Etats-Unis, Hideki ShirakawaUniversité de Tsukuba, Japon «pour la découverte et le développement des polymères conducteurs» Des plastiques qui conduisent l’électricité Nous pensions…

Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech have independently studied how the genetic code is transferred from DNA to RNA. They knew, however, that part of the genetic information is not required and must be removed from RNA before the RNA molecule can be utilized by the cell. While searching for the catalysts of RNA maturation, Altman…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005             Carbon compounds of different shapes and sizes build up all life on earth, but they can also be produced artificially. This is called organic synthesis and is central in chemistry. Here molecules are tailored and built in the service of mankind. The…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001               The substances used as the starting point for these syntheses are in general not chiral. The trick is to make the product chiral. This is done using a chiral catalyst molecule. Suppose we compare this molecule with a left hand. A…

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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