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Linus Pauling worked in a broad range of areas within chemistry. In 1951 he published the structure of the alpha helix, which is an important basic component of many proteins.

English October 10, 2000 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 jointly to Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, USA, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers” Plastic that conducts electricity We have been taught that…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the chemical foundations for life were a mystery. Today we know how many of the most important processes function, all the way down to the atomic level. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for the detailed mapping of the ribosome…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002             Mass spectrometry: Of course proteins can fly!     With mass spectrometry we can now quickly identify a substance in a sample by accurately determining its molecular mass. Mass spectrometry is a very widely used method for small and medium-sized molecules. John…

Just now the most intensive development is aimed at conjugated polymers in their un-doped, semiconductive state. This is because it was discovered ten years ago that some conjugated polymers exhibit electro-luminescence, they glow when a voltages passes through them.      Many applications are predicted for luminescent plastic. We shall soon be seeing the first practical…

The Age of the Molecule, N. Hall, Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1999 Classics in Total Synthesis, K. C. Nicolaou and E. J. Sorensen, VHC, Weinheim, 1996 Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, R. Noyori, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NY, 1994 Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, E. L. Eliel and S. H. Wilen, John Wiley…

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Melvin Calvin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 8, 1911, of Russian emigrant parents. He received the B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1931 at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, and the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1935. He spent the academic years 1935-1937 at the University of…