17 October 1975 has decided to award the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Professor John Warcup Cornforth, England for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and with the other half to Professor Vladimir Prelog, Switzerland for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions Cornforth has been…

16 October 1991 has decided to award the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Richard R. Ernst, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Revolutionary developments make a spectroscopic technique indispensable for chemistry The 1991 Nobel Prize in…

Swedish 13 oktober 1998 har utdelat 1998 års Nobelpris i kemi inom området kvantkemi till Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA och John A. Pople, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (brittisk medborgare). Pristagarna har var för sig gjort banbrytande insatser för att utveckla metoder som kan användas för att teoretiskt studera molekylers…

18 October 1976 has decided to award the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor William N. Lipscomb, Harvard University, USA, for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding CHEMISTRY PRIZE FOR THE STRUCTURE OF THE BORANES The studies for which William Lipscomb has been awarded the Nobel Prize are…

13 October 1993 has decided to award the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the development of methods within DNA-based chemistry, with half to Dr Kary B. Mullis, La Jolla, California, U.S.A., for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, and half to Professor Michael Smith, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,…

12 October 1994 has decided to award the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor George A. Olah, University of Southern California, USA for his contributions to carbocation chemistry. Carbocations: from hypothetical intermediate products to well defined molecules Most of us can recall from our high school chemistry courses that many so called inorganic compounds,…

English 9 October 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., and Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, for their discovery of fullerenes. The discovery of carbon atoms bound in…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Walter Kohn, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and, Professor John A. Pople, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (British citizen). The Laureates have each made pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties…

18 October 1982 has decided to award the 1982 Nobel Prize for chemistry to Ph.D. Aaron Klug, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes. DEPICTING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE Life is a chemical phenomenon. Living organisms are…

19 October 1983 has decided to award the 1983 Nobel Prize for chemistry to Professor Henry Taube, Stanford University, Stanford, USA, for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes. Chemistry prize awarded to one of the most creative contemporary workers in inorganic chemistry Chemical reactions were known to man…