Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
The following account of Butenandt’s work has been made. As recently as twelve years ago, very little was known about the nature of the sex hormones. As regards the oestrogenic, or follicle, hormone it was established that extracts from certain organs, e.g. the ovaries and placenta, bring about the characteristic oestrus phenomena in castrated female…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004 “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation” jointly to Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose It has long been clear how proteins are built up in the…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1924
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1940
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences this year has decided to award with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry a scientific feat which is less a direct improvement of our material living standards, but…
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Press release
14 October 1992 has decided to award the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems A theory close to reality Professor Rudolph A. Marcus is being rewarded for his theoretical work on…
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