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14 October 1987 has decided to award the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly to Professor Donald J. Cram, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, to Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, and College de France, Paris, France, and to former research chemist Charles J. Pedersen, Du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware, USA for their development…

The beginning is distant, and was a time when we as a people were without much of the fruits of science that now refine our lives. But it was also a good time, when family and town were the domain of our existence. My father of Scottish, and mother of German extraction, migrated with their…

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I was born in Pusan, Korea, on October 3, 1904. My father Brede Pedersen, was a Norwegian marine engineer who left home as a young man and shipped out as an engineer on a steam freighter to the Far East. He eventually arrived in Korea and joined the fleet of the Korean customs service, which…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation form the Swedish text Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A prerequisite for all life processes is that molecules recognize each other and bind to each other in order to be able to react. The molecules are said to form complexes. The proteins in…

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