Nobel Prize

1835 The Swede Jöns Jacob Berzelius describes a catalyst as a substance which can breathe life into slumbering chemical reactions. 1868 Friedrich Miescher, Switzerland isolates nucleic acids from white blood cells obtained from discarded bandages. 1877 Wilhelm Kuhne, Germany introduces the term “enzyme” and distinguishes between enzymes and bacteria. 1893 Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvia classifies enzymes…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005   Editors: Per Ahlberg, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Per I. Arvidsson, Uppsala University, Jonas Förare, Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB, 2005 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2005 P.O. Box…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001                   The word chiral derives from the Greek word ceir (cheir), meaning hand. Our hands are chiral – the right hand is a mirror image of the left – as are most of life’s molecules such as (R)-alanine and (S)-alanine,…

I was born at home in rural Kentucky in 1942, in a house that my father, Howard, had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye. In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in…

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Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Cederblom, President of on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most prominent features of natural science research in our day is the reciprocal action characterizing physics and chemistry, causing an important discovery in one of these sciences almost invariably to affect the…

Presentation Speech by Professor K. Myrbäck, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In order to grow and to perform its various activities, every living organism needs a supply of energy in some suitable form. In this respect the organisms existing on this planet can be…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Ahlberg, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, December 10, 2005. Professor Per Ahlberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Laureates in…

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h Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Thelander, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, December 10, 2006. Professor Lars Thelander presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för att han lyckats skapa en molekylmodell av…