Swedish 9 oktober 1996 har beslutat utdela 1996 års Nobelpris i kemi gemensamt till Professor Robert F. Curl Jr., Rice University, Houston, USA, Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K. och Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, Houston, USA, för deras upptäckt av fullerener. Upptäckten av kolatomer bundna i form av bollar…

Swedish 8 oktober 2003 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2003 ”för upptäckter rörande kanaler i cellmembran” med hälften av priset till Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, ”för upptäckten av vattenkanaler” och den andra hälften till Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA ”för…

15 October 1974 has decided to award the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Professor Paul J. Flory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules THE CHEMISTRY OF PLASTICS This year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Paul J. Flory, has done epoch making research…

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…