Chemistry
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor H.A. Ölander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The chemists of older times were chiefly interested in how to produce substances from natural products which might prove useful; for example, metals from ores and the like. As a matter of…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone. Paul Crutzen Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany Mario Molina Dept. of Earth…
moreAlfred Werner – Biographical
Biographical
Alfred Werner, son of factory foreman J.A. Werner and his wife Jeanne, née Tesche, was born on December 12, 1866, at Mülhausen in Alsace, where he went to school. While he was at school he showed an interest in chemistry and did, when he was only 18, his first independent chemical research. From 1885 until…
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