Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The preparation of complicated organic compounds from simple and inexpensive starting materials is one of the prerequisites of our civilization, the chemical era in which we live. Organic synthesis has given us efficient methods…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life is order, death is disorder. A fundamental law of Nature states that spontaneous chemical changes in the universe tend toward chaos. But life has, during milliards (American English billions) of years of…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Sven Lidin, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2011 Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Unders tre årtusenden har vi vetat att femtalig symmetri inte går att kombinera med periodicitet, och under närmare tre sekler har vi trott att periodicitet är en förutsättning för…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gunnar Hägg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor William Lipscomb for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding. A couple of days after the announcement of…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Ölander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Analytical chemistry is a science, fundamental not only to the other branches of scientific chemical research, but also to applied chemistry, the chemical industry. Further it is important for the other natural sciences, both…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text You Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Henry Taube has been awarded the 1983 Nobel prize in chemistry for his studies of the mechanisms of electron transfer-reactions, particularly of metal complexes. I will not, during these few minutes, try to give…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Måns Ehrenberg, ledamot av ; ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2008 Professor Måns Ehrenberg presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2008 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar. Molekylärbiologisk forskning har från sin tillkomst varit fokuserad på den genetiska informationen i kromosomernas DNA-sekvenser. DNA-forskningen…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Lindberg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The chemical reactions which take place in living organisms are not spontaneous, but require the involvement of catalysts. These catalysts are called proteins and are composed of chains of amino acids called peptides. A…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Måns Ehrenberg, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2008 Professor Måns Ehrenberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Since its very beginning, molecular…

Presentation Speech by Professor O. Hammarsten, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1932 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The vast development of chemical science, especially in recent times, is based not only on new concepts and important discoveries, but also on improved experimental equipment and on…