Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Eberson of the Translation of the Swedish text Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, We like to think that everything worth knowing about the chemical elements is already known, and that carbon – one of our most thoroughly researched elements – could not possibly yield further important discoveries. Carbon…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Forsén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1991 is being awarded for methodological developments in an important spectroscopic field – nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Scientists usually refer to this method by its acronym, “NMR,” and…

Presentation Speech by Professor Karl Myrbäck, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The 1970 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Dr. Luis Leloir for work of fundamental importance for biochemistry. Dr. Leloir receives the prize for his discovery of the sugar nucleotides and…

Presentation Speech by Professor Carl-Ivar Brändén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our genetic material, which gives every living organism its unique characteristics, is built up from large and complex DNA molecules, each comprising hundreds of millions of atoms. For a long time it was believed…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The word sulphur may give rise to rather disparate sensations; to most people it has not a very pleasing ring. Also many chemists are inclined to keep their distance; they know that organic…

Presentation Speech by Professor Stig Claesson of Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, is generally considered to be the world’s foremost molecular spectroscopist and his large institute in Ottawa is the indisputed center for such research. It is…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Fredga, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. Nucleotides and nucleotide coenzymes are words that may seem strange and abstruse, but these compounds are of great importance to all of us. We have such substances everywhere in our bodies and they…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nordén of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Bengt Nordén delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Chemistry! We all associate chemistry with test tubes, stinking…

Presentation Speech by Professor H.G. Söderbaum, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of , on December 10, 1922 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most fruitful ideas in the chemical research of the last century was put forward in 1869, when the Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev drew up…

Presentation Speech by Professor K. Myrbäck, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In order to grow and to perform its various activities, every living organism needs a supply of energy in some suitable form. In this respect the organisms existing on this planet can be…