Chemistry

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1922 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most fruitful ideas in the chemical research of the last century was put forward in 1869, when the Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev drew up…

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Editors: Professors Bertil Andersson and Britt-Marie Sjöberg, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, University of Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Illustrator: Karin Feltzin, Stockholm, Sweden Photos: M. Marsland, Yale University, University of Colorado, Boulder Printed by: Tryckindustri AB, Solna Copyright © , Information Department, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel. +46-8-673 95 00, Fax +46-8-15…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005   Contents: |  |  |  |  |  | |  |  |   Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001                   Editors: Per Ahlberg, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Professor at Göteborg University, Eva Krutmeijer, Head of Information and Katarina Werner, Information assistant, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout: Kjell Lundin, Explicare ord och bild AB.…

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The RNA world by Sidney Altman1989 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry The phrase “The RNA World” was coined by in 1986 in a commentary on the then recent observations of the catalytic properties of various RNAs. The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. During this stage, proteins…

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