Wilhelm Ostwald was born on September 2, 1853, in Riga, Latvia, as the son of master-cooper Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald and Elisabith Leuckel. He was educated at the “Real gymnasium” there and in 1872 was admitted to Dorpat University to read chemistry. After taking his final examinations three years later, he obtained the post of assistant…

Linus Carl Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on 28th February, 1901, the son of a druggist, Herman Henry William Pauling, who, though born in Missouri, was of German descent, and his wife, Lucy Isabelle Darling, born in Oregon of English-Scottish ancestry. Linus attended the public elementary and high schools in the town of Condon…

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Swapping goods and possessions can lead to unexpected surprises, and in the case of chemistry this is no exception. One of the most popular and useful reactions that chemists use to build new molecules involves a curious process in which particular atoms switch their molecular partners, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewarded three…

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 1959 Ochoa and Kornberg awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA. 1962 Crick, Watson and Wilkins awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the double helix. 1965 Jacob, Lwoff and Monod awarded the Nobel Prize in…

Swedish 10 oktober 2000 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi för år 2000 gemensamt till Alan J. HeegerUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Hideki ShirakawaUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan “för upptäckten och utvecklandet av ledande polymerer” Plast som leder ström Vi har lärt oss att plaster, till skillnad från metaller,…

Normally chemical reactions do not proceed spontaneously, but require the help of a catalyst.     A catalyst accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being changed. For example, the reaction of hydrogen with oxygen to produce water requires the addition of the metal platinum. These days we encounter the concept of a catalyst most often in connection…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R Schrock “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”     Contents: |  |  |  |  |  | |  |  |…