Nobel Lecture, September 6, 1922 The Diffraction of X-Rays by Crystals Pdf 290 kB

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The following account of the work of Romain Rolland is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, in the district of Nièvre. He studied literature, music, and philosophy, and in 1895 he published two doctoral theses: Les Origines du théâtre lyrique moderne, an erudite and penetrating work which was…

No Nobel Banquet 1914-1919 due to war.

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The following account of Willstätter’s work is by Professor O. Hammarsten, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of By its property of making possible the assimilation of carbon dioxide under the influence of sunlight and hence introducing the synthesis of organic substances in the green parts of the plant, chlorophyll – as is well…

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There’s more to chlorophyll than simply providing plant leaves with their natural green colouring. Chlorophyll is part of the engine that drives photosynthesis, possibly the most important reaction on earth, in which light is absorbed from the sun and converted into chemical energy to fuel the growth of plants. Our understanding of the chemistry of…