Giulio Natta was born at Imperia on February 26, 1903. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1924 and passed the examinations entitling him to teach there in 1927. In 1933 he was established on the staff of Pavia University as a full professor and at the same time was appointed…

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Plastics surround our everyday lives, and the fact that they do is thanks largely to the innovations awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. By bringing order to the manner in which plastics are created, Karl Ziegler and Guilio Natta established ways of making them significantly cheaper, stronger and more versatile. Plastics are made up…

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Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Greek poet Giorgos Seferis, who was born in 1900 at Smyrna, which he left at an early age to accompany his family to Athens. After the Greeks were driven out of Asia Minor, and Seferis’s…

Giorgos Seferis was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1900. He attended school in Smyrna and finished his studies at the Gymnasium in Athens. When his family moved to Paris in 1918, Seferis studied law at the University of Paris and became interested in literature. He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor I. Waller, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The discoveries by Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer and Hans Jensen for which this year’s Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded, concern the theory of the atomic nuclei and the…