2001

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Per Ahlberg of the , December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Per Ahlberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Science is exciting. At least I…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001             The prize is being awarded to William S. Knowles Ryoji Noyori K. Barry Sharpless Photos: PRB This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about molecules that exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other. Often it is important to…

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Swedish 10 oktober 2001 Tre forskare delar årets Nobelpris i kemi: Dr William S. Knowles, som varit verksam vid Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, professor Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan samt professor K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Kalifornien, USA. De tre organiska kemisterna får priset “för utvecklandet av…

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English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 Three scientists share this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William S. Knowles, previously at Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Ryoji Noyori, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan and K. Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the…

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The Age of the Molecule, N. Hall, Ed., Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1999 Classics in Total Synthesis, K. C. Nicolaou and E. J. Sorensen, VHC, Weinheim, 1996 Asymmetric Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, R. Noyori, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NY, 1994 Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, E. L. Eliel and S. H. Wilen, John Wiley…

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German 10 Oktober 2001 hat beschlossen, den Nobelpreis des Jahres 2001 in Chemie für die Entwicklung der katalytischen asymmetrischen Synthese zur einen Hälfte gemeinsam zu verleihen an William S. Knowles St Louis, Missouri, USA, und Ryoji Noyori Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan, „für ihre Arbeiten über chiral katalysierende Hydrierungsreaktionen“ und zur anderen Hälfte des Preises…

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Swedish 10 oktober 2001 har beslutat att utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2001 för utvecklandet av katalytisk asymmetrisk syntes, med ena halvan gemensamt till William S. Knowles St Louis, Missouri, USA och Ryoji NoyoriNagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan “för deras arbeten över kiralt katalyserade hydrogeneringsreaktioner” och den andra halvan av priset till K. Barry SharplessThe…

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