Chemistry

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor K.B. Hasselberg, President of , on December 10, 1908 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year (1908) has been awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences to Ernest Rutherford, Professor of Physics at the Victoria University, Manchester (England), for his researches concerning…

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Press release

19 October 1981 has decided to award the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Kenichi Fukui, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, and the other half to Professor Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions CHEMISTRY PRIZE AWARDED FOR INCREASING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHEMICAL…

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Speed read

We perceive ourselves and the world around us in three dimensions, and this same point of view is crucial for understanding the way in which chemicals operate in living systems. Well-established theories predicted how atoms arrange themselves in molecules, but chemists still regarded many complex molecules involved in vital biological processes as if they were…

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Swedish 12 oktober 1999 har utdelat 1999 års Nobelpris i kemi till Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA för att han har visat att man med snabb laserteknik kan se hur atomerna i en molekyl rör sig under en kemisk reaktion. Vetenskapsakademiens motivering: För hans studier av kemiska reaktioners övergångstillstånd med…

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German hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 1995 an Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Deutschland (niederländischer Staatsangehöriger), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences und Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA und Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, USA wegen ihrer…

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