Leopold Stephen Ruzicka was born on September 13, 1887, in Vukovar, a small Croatian town on the Danube, somewhat east of its confluence with the Drava. His father, Stjepan Ruzicka, was a cooper; his mother’s maiden name was Ljubica Sever. His great-grandparents included a Czech, from whom the name Ruzicka stems, an Upper Austrian and…

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Presentation Speech by Professor P. Klason, President of , on December 10, 1906 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Academy of Sciences has this year awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Professor Henri Moissan of the University of Paris for isolating and investigating the chemical element fluorine and for introducing the…

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  In photosynthesis plants use light to form energy-rich compounds from water and carbon dioxide from the air. The decisive reactions occur in a reaction centre in the cell. The incoming light is caught in an antenna system and finds its way to a pair of chlorophyll molecules (see picture). Within these molecules an electron…

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        Editors: Solgerd Björn-Rasmussen and Margareta Wiberg Roland, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Authors: Prof. Anders Liljas, Lund University, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Dr. Lars Hederstedt and Dr. Salam Al-Karadaghi, Lund University. Layout and illustrations: Kjell Lundin, Explicare AB. Printed by: Tryckindustri 1997. Photos: Jilly Wendell and…

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Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Secretary of , on December 10, 1928 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. We hear continually that today science, in particular natural science, is becoming increasingly more specialized, that scientists are delving deeper and deeper into specialized studies difficult to survey, that the deep stream of research…

The Laureates Aaron Ciechanover, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) Avram Hershko, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)   Original Papers Ciechanover, A., Hod, Y., and Hershko, A. (1978) “A heat-stable polypeptide component of an ATP-dependent proteolytic system from reticulocytes”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 81, pp. 1100-1105. Hershko, A., Ciechanover, A., and Rose, I.A. (1979) “Resolution of…