Chemistry

Curriculum Vitae

  Born: Brooklyn, NY, June 30, 1926 Address: 838 Santa Fe Ave., Stanford, CA 94305 Education 1948 B.S., Pennsylvania State University 1952 Ph.D., Western Reserve University Professional Background 1950-52 Predoctoral Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health. 1952-54 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, American Cancer Society Dr. H. M. Kalckar, Institute of Cytophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark Dr. Arthur Kornberg,…

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Interview

Interview transcript Johann Deisenhofer, welcome to this archival interview for Nobelprize.org. You’re the co-recipient together with your mentor Robert Huber and your colleague Hartmut Michel, of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry which you received for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre. And the key point there…

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Interview

Interview transcript William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori and Barry Sharpless, my congratulations for this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And also welcome to this Nobel interview. All three of you are organic chemists and this means that you are looking into the chemistry of life. How would you describe the work of an…

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Interview

Interview transcript William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori and Barry Sharpless, my congratulations for this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And also welcome to this Nobel interview. All three of you are organic chemists and this means that you are looking into the chemistry of life. How would you describe the work of an…

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Interview

Interview transcript William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori and Barry Sharpless, my congratulations for this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. And also welcome to this Nobel interview. All three of you are organic chemists and this means that you are looking into the chemistry of life. How would you describe the work of an…

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Biographical

I was born in Springside, a village close to Todmorden in west Yorkshire on July 14th, 1921. The house where I was born and indeed most of the village has been demolished by the local council as being unfit for habitation. My father, and his father, also Geoffrey, were both master house painters and decorators,…

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