Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences this year has decided to award with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry a scientific feat which is less a direct improvement of our material living standards, but…

14 October 1992 has decided to award the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems A theory close to reality Professor Rudolph A. Marcus is being rewarded for his theoretical work on…

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Adolf Frederick Johann Butenandt was born on March 24, 1903 at Bremerhaven-Wesermünde. The son of a business man Otto Butenandt of Hamburg, he went to school at Bremerhaven and studied chemistry at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen. In 1927 he graduated at the University of Göttingen, where he had studied under From 1927 until…

Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10th, 1917, the only child of Margaret Burns, a native of Glasgow, and Arthur Woodward, of English antecedents, who died in October, 1918, at the age of thirty-three. Woodward was attracted to chemistry at a very early age, and indulged his taste for the science in…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1945 Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In our northern latitudes we have to feed our most useful domestic animals in winter with preserved fodder, generally hay. But for a long time it has been common…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Andersson of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life requires energy. Our muscles require energy when we move. We need energy to think. Energy input is required for the production of new biological molecules. This year’s three Nobel…

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Heinrich Otto Wieland was born as the son of Württemberger parents, Dr. Theodor Wieland and Elise Blum, on June 4, 1877, in Pforzheim where his father was a pharmaceutical chemist. He studied at the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Stuttgart, and then returned to the Baeyer Laboratory in Munich where, in 1901, he received his…