The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002           From early diagnosis to new medicines   Mass spectrometry and NMR have been around for a long time, but the ability to use them on molecules as large as proteins was something most scientists considered impossible. This year’s Nobel prize Laureates showed that…

    (press release, information for the public, advanced information, suggested web links to institutions and companies etc), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (advanced) on the Nobel Prize 2000, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Conductive Polymers, M.G.Kanatzidis, Chem. Eng. News 3, p. 36, 1990. Plastic Electronics, D. de Leeuw, Physics World, p. 31,…

Swedish 10 oktober 2001 Tre forskare delar årets Nobelpris i kemi: Dr William S. Knowles, som varit verksam vid Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, professor Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan samt professor K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Kalifornien, USA. De tre organiska kemisterna får priset “för utvecklandet av…

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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was born August 10, 1902, in Stockholm. After the early loss of his father, the family moved to Gothenburg where he went to school, and after graduation at the local “Realgymnasium” in 1921, he studied at the University of Uppsala, specializing in chemistry. He became research assistant in ‘s laboratory in…

Gerhard Herzberg was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 25 December, 1904. He was married in 1929 to Luise Herzberg neé Oettinger and has two children. He was widowed in 1971. Herzberg received his early training in Hamburg and subsequently studied physics at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology where in 1928 he obtained his Dr.Ing. degree…

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. I can’t think of any relatives that ever went into science. My family gave me the best in education. To my father, business was the…

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