Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Forsén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A burning flame – a little everyday miracle that has astonished and fascinated most of us. A chemical reaction that produces heat and light and that during historical times has modified the conditions of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation form the Swedish text Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A prerequisite for all life processes is that molecules recognize each other and bind to each other in order to be able to react. The molecules are said to form complexes. The proteins in…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, Secretary of , on December 10, 1928 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. We hear continually that today science, in particular natural science, is becoming increasingly more specialized, that scientists are delving deeper and deeper into specialized studies difficult to survey, that the deep stream of research…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the beginning there was light. Light played an important role in the origin of life on earth, and the radiation of the sun is an absolute prerequisite for the forms of life…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The body and soul of man is the most complex and refined chemical machine that we know. Even the simplest forms of life, for example bacteria, are almost immeasurably intricate systems compared to…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Lindberg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Chemistry is a natural science which is not entirely devoted to the study of natural objects. The art of chemistry also includes the ability on the part of the chemists to prepare or synthesize…

Presentation Speech by Dr. E.W. Dahlgren, Head Librarian of the National Library, President of , on December 10, 1911 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Royal Academy of Sciences, at the session on the 7th of November of this year, decided to award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1911 to Madame…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Håkan Wennerström, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, 10 December 2007. Professor Håkan Wennerström presenterar Nobelpriset i kemi 2007 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Det centrala temat i kemin är den kemiska reaktionen. Det handlar om hur molekyler bildas, omformas…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Ölander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize which is now to be given to Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Academician Nikolai Nikolaevic Semenov “for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions” reminds us of the very…

Presentation Speech by Professor Gerard de Geer, President of , on December 10, 1921 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. As long ago as the Ice Age, when our species was in its childhood, man found in fire a powerful ally in his fight against cold and darkness, and it helped him make…