Derek Harold Richard Barton was born on 8 September 1918, son of William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton. In 1938 he entered Imperial College, University of London, where he obtained his B.Sc.Hons. (1st Class) in 1940 and Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) in 1942. From 1942 to 1944 he was a research chemist on a government project,…

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Since their launch in 1901, the Nobel Prizes have rewarded more achievements in the study of carbon-based substances, otherwise known as organic chemistry, than in any other traditional chemistry discipline. Each Nobel Prize in organic chemistry is listed below, grouped loosely according to their fields. Click on each link to see a Speed read, our…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004         Credits     Editors: Lars Thelander and Bengt Nordén, Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Eva Krutmeijer, Malin Lindgren and Anna Lindquist, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Kjell Lundin Printing: Katarinatryck AB, 2004 © The Royal Swedish Academy of…

Odd Hassel was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, I7 May, 1897. His father was Ernst Hassel, a physician who specialized in gynaecology, his mother Mathilde née Klaveness. In 1915 he entered the University of his native town where he studied mathematics and physics with chemistry as his chief subject and graduated as a cand.…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965 Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Natural Products Pdf 246 kB

English 6 October 2004 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004 “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation” jointly to Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Avram Hershko Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and Irwin Rose University of California, Irvine, USA Proteins labelled for…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004             Proteins are life’s building-blocks In the tiniest intestinal bacteria, in roses and toadstools, in mice and men – in all living cells – proteins answer for both form and function. Naturally, research into proteins is therefore of the greatest interest, particularly for…