Statutes for the prizes awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences

Chemistry

Statutes for the prizes awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences

Statutes containing special regulations for the award by the Royal Academy of Sciences of prizes from the Nobel Foundation, etc. The Government decreed on 7 April 1994 that the Statutes of 29 of June 1973, containing special regulations concerning the award by the Royal Academy of Sciences of prizes from the Nobel Foundation etc., shall…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Prize awarder for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for selecting the Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry. By the terms of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1901. The Academy was founded in 1739 and has today about 440…

Nomination and selection of chemistry laureates

Nomination to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is by invitation only. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later. Process of nomination and selection The sends confidential forms to persons who are competent and qualified to nominate. Qualified nominators The right to submit proposals for the…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018

Summary

Otto Hahn – Banquet speech

Banquet speech

Otto Hahn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1946 (in German) Der Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und dem Nobelkomite möchte ich meinen tiefgefühlten Dank aussprechen für die grosse Ehre, die sie mir mit der Erteilung des Nobelpreises erwiesen haben, und auch Ihnen, sehr verehrter Herr Präsident Curman, möchte ich herzlich danken für…

Marie Curie – Banquet speech

Banquet speech

Marie Curie’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1911 (in French) Je remercie l’Académie des Sciences du très grand honneur qu’elle m’a fait. Je crois que cet honneur ne s’adresse point uniquement à moi. Pendant de longues années, et moi avons consacré toutes nos journées aux travaux concernant nos découvertes communes du…

Jens C. Skou – Biographical

Biographical

I was born on the 8th of October 1918 into a wealthy family in Lemvig, a town in the western part of Denmark. The town is nicely situated on a fjord, which runs across the country from the Kattegat in East to the North Sea in West. It is surrounded by hills, and is only…

Paul D. Boyer – Biographical

Biographical

The first 21 years of my life were spent in Provo, Utah, then a city of about 15,000 people, beautifully situated at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. Hardy Mormon pioneers had settled the area only 70 years before my birth in 1918. Provo was a well-designed city with stable neighbourhoods, a pride in its…

Press release

English 4 October 2017 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet University of Lausanne, Switzerland Joachim Frank Columbia University, New York, USA and Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution” Cool microscope technology…

Press release

English 5 October 2016 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre SauvageUniversity of Strasbourg, France Sir J. Fraser StoddartNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Bernard L. FeringaUniversity of Groningen, the Netherlands “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” They developed the world’s smallest machines A tiny lift, artificial muscles…