2001

Biographical

I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts. Richard’s father was a doctor, and there is still a chemist’s shop (i.e. pharmacy) in Winchester that bears the family name. My mother’s father, Harry…

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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001               Organisms consist of cells that multiply through cell division. Before a cell can divide it has to grow in size, duplicate its chromosomes and separate the chromosomes for distribution between the two daughter cells. These different processes are…

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Press release

German 10 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2001 in Chemie für die Entwicklung der katalytischen asymmetrischen Synthese zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam zu verleihen an William S. Knowles St Louis, Missouri, USA, und Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan, „für ihre Arbeiten über chiral katalysierende Hydrierungsreaktionen“ und zur anderen Hälfte des Preises…

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