Chemistry
Arthur Harden – Biographical
Biographical
Arthur Harden was born in Manchester, England, on October 12, 1865; his father was Albert Tyas Harden and his mother Eliza Macalister. He was educated at a private school in Victoria Park (1873-1877) and at Tettenhall College, Staffordshire (1877-1881). He entered The Owens College in the University of Manchester in 1882, studying under Sir H.E.…
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Ronald G.W. Norrish – Biographical
Biographical
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was born in Cambridge on November 9th, 1897. His father, a native of Crediton, Devonshire, came to Cambridge as a young Pharmacist to open one of the early shops of Boots, the Chemists, and remained there for the rest of his long life. After spending his early years at the local…
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Richard Willstätter – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor G. Hägg, Member of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Exactly 50 years ago, a Nobel Prize was awarded which we have much reason to be reminded of today. was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize for physics for, according to the citation, “his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays…
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