Chemistry

Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Our epoch has witnessed the gradual replacement of traditional materials by synthetic ones. We have all seen that plastics can often substitute glass, porcelain, wood, metals, bones, and horn, the substitutes being frequently lighter,…

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Press release

French 12 Octobre 1999 a attribué le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 1999 au Professeur Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, États-Unis pour avoir montré qu’il est possible, grâce à une technique laser ultrarapide, d’observer le mouvement des atomes d’une molécule au cours des réactions chimiques. Motivation de l’Académie des Sciences: Pour…

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Press release

Swedish har beslutat att utdela 1995 års Nobelpris i kemi till Professor Paul Crutzen, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Tyskland (nederländsk medborgare), Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences och Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA och Professor F. Sherwood Rowland, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA för deras…

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Biographical

Hans von Euler-Chelpin was born on February 15, 1873, at Augsburg. His father, who was then a captain in the Royal Bavarian Regiment, was transferred to Munich and von Euler-Chelpin spent most of his childhood not far away with his grandmother at Wasserburg. After going to school at Munich, Wurzburg and Ulm, he studied art…

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