Chemistry
Solar cells
The process giving rise to electro-luminescence can also be “run backwards”. Absorption of light creates positive and negative charges that are picked up by the electrodes, providing an electric current. This is the principle of the solar cell. The advantage of plastic is that large, flexible surfaces can be made relatively easily and cheaply.…
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Lord Todd – Biographical
Biographical
Sir Alexander Robertus Todd was born in Glasgow on October 2, 1907, the elder son of Alexander Todd, a business man of that city, and his wife Jean Lowrie. He was educated at Allan Glen’s School and Glasgow University, where he took his B.Sc. degree in 1928 and, after a short initial research training with…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by the Rector General of National Antiquities, Professor O. Montelius, President of , on December 10, 1910 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. At the meeting of 12th November, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Geheimrat Otto Wallach, Professor at Göttingen…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Claes Gustafsson, KI, Lars Thelander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2006 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2006 Box 50005,…
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