Iwas born on September 12, 1940 in Weidenau/Sieg, Germany. Since 1972 the town has been part of Siegen, a city with currently some 100,000 inhabitants, situated at the southern tip of North Rhine Westphalia. The mountainous area around it is called Siegerland, for centuries home of the iron mining, processing and manufacturing industry. Mining of…

My curriculum vitae has been on my personal page of the University of Lausanne’s website for a long time. Few people had looked at it so far. Suddenly, with the news of the Nobel Prize, it became a worldwide buzz almost overnight. All of this because people found it, let’s say, “unusual”. But why is…

https://youtu.be/YlQugR7KSKg Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, 10 December 2019.

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)

https://youtu.be/xVCAbfMbaho M. Stanley Whittingham’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellences, Dear Laureates, Ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of Professor John Goodenough, Dr. Akira Yoshino and myself we wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this honor. More than a century…

Artist: Stanislaw Zoladz Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi, monogram: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden, on 10 December every year – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded to the Nobel Laureates. Read the speeches

Artist: Stanislaw Zoladz Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi, monogram: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

Artist: Stanislaw Zoladz Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi, monogram: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Olof Ramström, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 december 2019. Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Föreställ er en värld där vi har obegränsad tillgång till lagrad elektrisk energi varhelst vi befinner oss. Kanske kommer även elen från förnybara energikällor som varierar över…