Chemistry

Interview

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…

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Interview

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…

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Award ceremony speech

  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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Banquet speech

Richard L.M. Synge’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1952 (in Swedish) Eders Majestät, Eders kungliga högheter, mina damer och herrar. Jag vill ge uttryck åt den stora glädje jag känner över Kungl. Vetenskapsakademins beslut att utmärka vårt arbete med Nobelpriset i kemi. Jag vill också tacka för Riksmarskalkens vackra tal i…

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