Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1904 The Rare Gases of the Atmosphere The discoveries which have gained for me the supreme honour of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry appear to me to have been the result of causes only partially within my control; and as it is one of the rules of the Academy, of which…

My father, Herbert Bennett Fenn, the eldest of three children was born and raised on a farm in northern Delaware which his father operated but did not own. I never saw that farm but I vividly remember my Grandmother’s frequent reference to a single chestnut tree in the front yard, so large and prolific that…

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Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The word sulphur may give rise to rather disparate sensations; to most people it has not a very pleasing ring. Also many chemists are inclined to keep their distance; they know that organic…

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, is generally considered to be the world’s foremost molecular spectroscopist and his large institute in Ottawa is the indisputed center for such research. It is…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nordén of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Bengt Nordén delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Chemistry! We all associate chemistry with test tubes, stinking…

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English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Thelander, Member of the , December 10, 2006 Professor Lars Thelander delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall.   Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry is receiving the award because…