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Irving Langmuir was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 31, 1881, as the third of four sons of Charles Langmuir and Sadie, neé Comings. His early education was obtained in various schools and institutes in the USA, and in Paris (1892-1895). He graduated as a metallurgical engineer from the School of Mines at Columbia…

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Presentation Speech by Professor H.G.Söderbaum, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1932 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Superficiality is a quality which has always had a bad reputation, not least within the field of science and among scientific practitioners. In these circumstances it may possibly arouse…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. “Even the ancient Greeks…” is a frequent preamble to the survey of a historical event and the hearer sees a vision of frightening profundity. I should like today to begin with Democritus of Abdera…

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  (press release): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Femtoland web page: The Birth of Molecules, A.H. Zewail, Scientific American, Vol. 262, Dec. 1990, pp.40-46 Laser Femtochemistry, A.H. Zewail, Science, Vol. 242 (1988), pp. 1645-1653 Femtochemistry: Recent progress in studies of Dynamics and Control of Reactions and their Transition States, A.H. Zewail, J. Phys.…

  Editors: Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen and Margareta Wiberg Roland, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Author: Dr Olof Wennerström, Department of Organic Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Illustrator: Karin Feltzin, Stockholm, Sweden Printed by: Tryckindustri AB, Solna 1990 Copyright © , Information Department, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel. +46-8-673 95…