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Alfred Werner, son of factory foreman J.A. Werner and his wife Jeanne, née Tesche, was born on December 12, 1866, at Mülhausen in Alsace, where he went to school. While he was at school he showed an interest in chemistry and did, when he was only 18, his first independent chemical research. From 1885 until…

Friedrich Bergius was born on October 11, 1884, in Goldschmieden near Breslau, Silesia. He belonged to an old respected family of scientists, theologians, civil servants, army officers, and business men. His grandfather was Professor of Economics in Breslau and his father owned a chemical factory in Goldschmieden. Bergius was educated in Breslau and whilst still…

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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Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1931 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Under Alfred Nobel’s will, the Nobel Prizes are to be awarded to those who have been of the greatest benefit to mankind and, particularly in respect of the…

Presentation Speech by , member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for the discovery of a method for the separation of substances from complicated mixtures. How can it happen, one may ask, that something apparently so commonplace as…