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Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the…

Rudolph A. Marcus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I deeply appreciate the great honor that Your Majesties and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences are bestowing on me today. I believe that it is the entire field of electron transfer, which reaches into many…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1992 Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry: Theory and Experiment Pdf 980 kB

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Trying to capture Derek Walcott’s oceanic work in a formula would be an absurd enterprise – had he not himself come to our assistance, shrewdly hiding a few key formulations in his…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Hans Jörnvall of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded for discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation. What does that mean and how does phosphorylation work? Let us…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Eberson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is being awarded to Professor Rudolph Marcus for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. To understand the background of his achievements,…

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Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1992 The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory Felicity is a village in Trinidad on the edge of the Caroni plain, the wide central plain that still grows sugar and to which indentured cane cutters were brought after emancipation, so the small population of Felicity is East Indian, and on the afternoon…

Interview transcript I am pleased to be sitting here with Rudolph Marcus on the 26th of June, the year 2000, which is actually the first day of the Nobel Prize Tagungen in Lindau which is actually the 50th anniversary of these days here. Let me first ask you that you were actually…