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E.J. Corey, X.-M. Cheng: The Logic of Chemical Synthesis, Wiley – Interscience, 1989. E.J. Corey, A.K. Long, S.D. Rubenstein: Computer-Assisted Analysis in Organic Synthesis, Science, Vol 228, 1985, pp 408-418. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (press release).  

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe. On July 18, 1937 I was born to Clara (née Rosen) and Hillel Safran in Zloczow, Poland. This town, typical of the Pale of the Settlement, was part of Austria-Hungary when my parents were born. It was Poland in my time and is…

John Cowdery Kendrew was born on 24th March, 1917, in Oxford. His father, Wilfrid George Kendrew, was Reader in Climatology in the University of Oxford; his mother, Evelyn May Graham (Sandberg) Kendrew, was an art historian, for many years resident in Florence, Italy, where she published works on the Italian Primitives under the nom de…

German gehalten am 2 Juni 1920 in Stockholm Hochansehnliche Versammlung! Die schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften hat die Darstellung des Ammoniaks aus Stickstoff und Wasserstoff der Ehrung durch Zuerkennung des Nobelpreises wert gefunden. Diese ausserordentliche Auszeichnung legt mir die Pflicht auf, die Stellung zu kennzeichnen, die die Reaktion im Rahmen des Faches einnimmt und den Weg…

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Presentation Speech by Doctor Å.G. Ekstrand, President of , on June 1, 1920 Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to confer the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1918 upon the Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at Dahlem near Berlin, Geheimrat Professor Dr. Fritz Haber, for his method of synthesizing…

Presentation Speech by Professor W. Palmær, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1937 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. To the most important chemical compounds belongs a group of substances named carbohydrates. They have been so called because of their composition, which is such that they may be…

23 October 1973 has decided to award the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry half each to: Professor Ernst Otto Fischer, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany and Professor Geoffrey Wilkinson, Imperial College, London, Great Britain for their pioneering work performed independently on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds. “Chemistry…