John C. Polanyi’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1986 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Late in his career as an actor Richard Burton was asked by an interviewer what it was in his work on the stage that had given him the keenest pleasure. Burton thought for a while, and…

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Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 Molecular Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions Pdf 988 kB

Transcript of the interview I’m very pleased to have an opportunity to interview you, John Polanyi, at the Lindau meeting of the Nobel prize winners this 50-year anniversary. And John, you have a family background that I think is slightly unusual from other Laureates I’ve interviewed. Your father was a very famous…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 Molecular Beam Studies of Elementary Chemical Processes Pdf 728 kB

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1986 Some Concepts in Reaction Dynamics Pdf 1.34 MB

Interview transcript Dudley Herschbach, we are sitting here in your office in the chemistry department at Harvard, where you’ve been since 1963 when you became professor here. Dudley Herschbach: Yes, although I was here earlier as a graduate student as well, I got here in 1955 as a graduate student. Exactly, you’re…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Lennart Eberson of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is being awarded to Professor Rudolph Marcus for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. To understand the background of his achievements,…

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