Chemistry
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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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The discoveries for which Ilya Prigogine has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry come within the field of thermodynamics, which represents one of the most sophisticated branches of scientific theory and is…
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Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Ingmar Grenthe of the Translation of the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses. Ladies and Gentlemen, About thirty years ago, for the first time, we humans were able to view our planet from space. We saw white cloud formations, blue oceans, green vegetation and brown soils and mountains. From space,…
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