Presentation Speech by Professor Inga Fischer-Hjalmars of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The laureates in chemistry of this year have studied the theory of chemical reactions. Chemical reactions is something that fills our daily life. All of us are constantly starting chemical reactions, by turning the…

German 12 Oktober 1999 hat den Nobelpreis in Chemie für das Jahr 1999 verliehen an Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA weil er nachgewiesen hat, daß man mit Hilfe schneller Laser-Technik sehen kann, wie sich Atome während einer chemischen Reaktion in einem Molekül bewegen. Entscheidung der Akademie der Wissenschaften: Für seine…

Extremely low temperatures over Antarctica lead to the condensation of water and nitric acid to form “polar stratospheric clouds” (PSCs). Through chemical reactions on the surface of the cloud particles large quantities of chlorine and bromine, derived from CFCs and other industrially produced gases, are liberated. As the ultraviolet light increases during the spring months…

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Carl Bosch was born at Cologne on August 27, 1874, and grew up there. From 1894 to 1896 he studied metallurgy and mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, but started reading chemistry at Leipzig University in 1896. He graduated under Professor Wislicenus with a paper on organic chemistry in 1898. He entered the…

I was born on July 14, 1935 in Changchun, China, as a Japanese citizen. My family moved to Harbin when I was one and then to Seoul, Korea, two years before the end of World War II. As I was admitted to an elementary school in Harbin at age six, a year earlier than normal,…

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