Nobel Prize

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…

Presentation Speech by Dr. H.R. Törnebladh, President of on December 10, 1903 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. During the first year of the last century Volta made the first electric pile. By studying the chemical actions of the electric current thus obtained Davy in Britain and Berzelius and Hisinger in Sweden arrived…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesty, Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. In 1897 , the German research worker, discovered that sugar can be made to ferment, not only with ordinary yeast, but also with the help of the expressed juices of yeast which contain none of…

Presentation Speech by Professor J.E. Cederblom, President of on December 10, 1904 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the most prominent features of natural science research in our day is the reciprocal action characterizing physics and chemistry, causing an important discovery in one of these sciences almost invariably to affect the…

Presentation Speech by Professor A. Westgren, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. “Scheele analyses the universe on the hearth”, it was thus that Tegnér on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Swedish Academy, described the most dazzling of the works of chemistry in our country…

Presentation Speech by Professor the Count K.A.H. Mörner, President of , on December 10, 1907 This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Eduard Buchner for his work on fermentation. For a very long time both chemists and biologists have always regarded it as a particularly significant achievement when it has been…

Presentation Speech by Professor Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, University of Stockholm Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Greek word for Nature is jnsiz (fysis) and for Natural Science jnsich (fysiké). Later on, this science became so comprehensive that it was divided into a number of smaller domains, such as Biology, Geography, Chemistry, and Physics…