The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000 jointly to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”. Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how plastic can be…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Ahlberg, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, den 10 december 2005. Professor Per Ahlberg presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2005 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders majestäter, Eders kungliga högheter, mina damer och herrar Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi har skapat fantastiska möjligheter att bygga nya organiska molekyler. Det är…

German 10 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2001 in Chemie für die Entwicklung der katalytischen asymmetrischen Synthese zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam zu verleihen an William S. Knowles St Louis, Missouri, USA, und Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan, „für ihre Arbeiten über chiral katalysierende Hydrierungsreaktionen“ und zur anderen Hälfte des Preises…

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I was born a Kiwi (a New Zealander) in Masterton, New Zealand on April 14, 1927, and still am a Kiwi by New Zealand law, although I became a naturalized United States citizen many years ago in order to have the right to vote in US elections and, hence, voice my political opinions in a…

Peter Mitchell was born in Mitcham, in the County of Surrey, England, on September 29, 1920. His parents, Christopher Gibbs Mitchell and Kate Beatrice Dorothy (née) Taplin, were very different from each other temperamentally. His mother was a shy and gentle person of very independent thought and action, with strong artistic perceptiveness. Being a rationalist…

My adult scientific career began with graduate study in chemical physics with Harden McConnell at Stanford. I had the idea of elucidating the mechanism of ion transport across biological membranes by nuclear resonance. I thought ion transport must involve rotation of the transport protein in the membrane. Struggling to prove this wrong idea, it occurred…

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