Chemistry

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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Biographical

Henri Moissan was born in Paris on September 28, 1852. His advanced education began in the Collège de Meaux and later in Edmond Frémy’s laboratory at the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, where he attended lectures by E.H. Sainte-Claire Deville and Henri Debray. A year later, he removed to Dehérain’s laboratory in the École Pratique des Haute…

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