1976

Award ceremony speech

  Presentation Speech by Professor Erling Norrby of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, An occasional encounter with infectious agents is part of our daily life. The smallest among these infectious agents are called viruses. In spite of their small size viruses may cause many different types…

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Press release

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…

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Award ceremony speech

Presentation Speech by Professor Gunnar Hägg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor William Lipscomb for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding. A couple of days after the announcement of…

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Biographical

Although born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, on December 9, 1919, I moved to Kentucky in 1920, and lived in Lexington through my university years. After my bachelors degree at the University of Kentucky, I entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology in 1941, at first in physics. Under the influence of , I…

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Press release

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 When Saul Bellow published his first book, the time had come for a change of climate and generation in American narrative art. The so-called hard-boiled style, with its virile air and choppy prose, had now slackened into an everyday routine, which was…

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