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Theodor Svedberg
Theodor Svedberg , 1884-1971, Swedish chemist. He was professor of physical chemistry from 1912 to 1949 at the Univ. of Uppsala. For his fundamental research on colloid chemistry he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Svedberg studied especially the giant protein molecules, evolving for this... Read more |
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Alexander R. Todd
Alexander Todd Chemist Alexander Todd researched the chemistry of nucleotides and was influential in synthesizing vitamins for commercial applications. For his work on nucleotides, he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Alexander Todd was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in chemistry... Read more |
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Svante August Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius , 1859-1927, Swedish chemist. He was a professor of physics in Stockholm in 1895 and became director of the Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry, Stockholm, in 1905. For originating (1884, 1887) the theory of electrolytic dissociation, or ionization, he received the 1903... Read more |
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Adolf Windaus
Adolf Windaus , 1876-1959, German chemist. He was professor of chemistry and director of the chemistry laboratories at the Univ. of Göttingen (1915-44). For his research on sterols, especially in relation to vitamins, he received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He later discovered and... Read more |
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Richard Zsigmondy
ZSIGMONDY, RICHARD ADOLF(b. Vienna Austria, 1 April 1865;d. Göttingen, Germany, 24 September 1929)colloidal chemistry.Zsigmondy was a figure of paramount importance on colloid chemistry during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1925, for invention of the... Read more |
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Sir William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay 1852-1916, Scottish chemist. He was professor of chemistry at University College, Bristol (1880-87), and at University College, London (1887-1912). In his early experiments he showed that the alkaloids are related to pyridine, which he synthesized (1876) from acetylene and... Read more |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
OSTWALD, FRIEDRICH WILHELM(b. Riga, Latvia, Russia, 2 September 1853 ; d. Leipzig, Germany, 4 April 1932)physical chemistry, Colorscience.Together with van’t Hoff and Arrhenius, Ostwald established physical chemistry as a recognized and independent professional discipline and was its most important... Read more |
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Georg Wittig
WITTIG, GEORG(b. Berlin, Germany, 16 June 1897;d. Heidelberg, Germany, 26 August 1987), organic chemistry.Wittig’s work was guided by the general idea of establishing the field of carbanion chemistry as equal in importance to the fields of free radical and carbonium ion chemistry. His studies led... Read more |
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Adolf von Baeyer
Adolf von Baeyer (Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer) , 1835-1917, German chemist. He taught at Berlin and Strasbourg and in 1875 succeeded Liebig at Munich. For his work in organic chemistry, especially that on organic dyes and the hydroaromatic compounds, he received the 1905 Nobel Prize... Read more |
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Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye
Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye , 1884-1966, American physicist, b. the Netherlands. He was professor at the universities of Zürich, Utrecht, Göttingen, Leipzig, and Berlin. In 1940 he came to the United States and served as professor of chemistry at Cornell Univ. (1940-52). For his work on the... Read more |
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Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
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Nobel Prizes
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physiology
...adoped in 1900 by the Nobel Foundation. To recognize...field, the relevant Nobel Prize is still awarded in ‘Physiology...Medicine’, although many Nobel prize-winners in this category (working...between physiology and ... |
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Nobel Peace Prize
...legacy of Alfred Nobel (b. 1833, d...the creation of a Nobel Foundation. This...legacy to finance a prize for physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine...While the first four prizes are awarded in Sweden, the Nobel Peace ... |
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vant Hoff, Jacobus Henricus
...Henricus (1852–1911) A Dutch chemist, and winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on the relationship between osmotic...vapour pressure, van't Hoff was professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology at Amsterdam ... |
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Roundup: Negishi, Suzuki become Japan's 6th and 7th Nobel Prize winners in...
...s 6th and 7th Nobel Prize winners in chemistry TOKYO, Oct. 6 (Xinhua...Suzuki were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their work...of Japanese who have earned Nobel ... |
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Israeli scientist becomes 4th female Nobel chemistry prize winner
Israeli scientist becomes 4th female Nobel chemistry prize winner JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli...was declared on Wednesday as one of the winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, ... |
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Recent Winners of Nobel Chemistry Prize
...Online 10-05-2005 Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:____ 2005...contributions to carbocation chemistry._ 1993: Kary B. Mullis... |
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Analysis: Winners of the Nobel Prizes for physics and chemistry have been...
...Siegel. Often the Nobel Prizes in science are given...the physics and chemistry Nobels recognize...winners of the physics prize are three men who...technologies. And in chemistry, the prize goes...each case, ... |
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DIRECTOR-GENERAL APPLAUDS 2011 NOBEL CHEMISTRY PRIZE-WINNER DANIEL SHECHTMAN.
...congratulated Daniel Shechtman (Israel) for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in recognition of his ground-breaking work on...As UNESCO celebrates the International Year of Chemistry, I wish to congratulate Daniel Shechtman, whose... |
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Wiley lauds its Nobel Laureates; Chemistry Prize goes to Wiley author Kurt...
...LTD: Wiley lauds its Nobel Laureates; Chemistry Prize goes to Wiley author...Biomedical Sciences winner H. Robert Horvitz...Horvitz have been named as Nobel Laureates. Drs. Wuthrich...2002 Nobel Prize in ... |
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Solo winner detailed path from DNA to RNA.(NOBEL PRIZE: CHEMISTRY)(Roger...
...sole possession of the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Kornberg's work has been a...shared the physiology or medicine Nobel Prize for his part in revealing...sixth parent and child to win the Nobel Prize. Who ... |
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University of Delaware speaks highly of Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
...speaks highly of Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry WASHINGTON, Oct...been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...the second Nobel Prize winner with ties to ... |
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Dartmouth chemistry profs praise former student, co-winner of Nobel Prize
...alum to win a Nobel Prize. "It took a lot...his winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry. "When something...The awarding of a Nobel Prize in this area...what got me into chemistry ... the ... |
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Clean sweep for quantum researchers.(John Pople, 1998 Nobel Prize winner for...
...Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry to two of the field...revolutionising the whole of chemistry'. Both men work on...elementary particles - to chemistry. Although the fundamental...s third chemistry ... |
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