Nobel Foundation

Much has already been written about the Stockholm Nobel ceremonies. I would like, therefore, only to mention some personal recollections. The events, like all the activities of the Nobel Foundation, are... 

FisH66 Fischer, H. Nobel Lectures. Chemistry 1922-41. Nobel Foundation, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1966. 

Photo provided courtesy of the Nobel Foundation. Figure 4.8 Charles D. Winters. Unnumbered Figure, p. 87 Charles D. Winters. Figure 4.9 (a) Charles D. Winters. Figure 4.9 (b) Charles D. Winters. Figure 4.9 (c) Charles D. Winters. Figure A, Beyond the Classroom Box Photos provided courtesy ofMateusz Zuchowski. 

Nobel Foundation. Ascanio sobrero, Nobelprize.org. Available online. URL http //nobelprize.org/alfred nobel/biographical/ articles/life-work/sobrero.html. Accessed on March 10, 2008. 

Nobel Foundation (1966) Nobel lectures, chemistry, 1901-1921. Elsevier, Amsterdam... 

Nobel Foundation Records. Reports to the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine for its 1945, 1946, and 1948 prizes, Stockholm, Sweden. Material from the Nobel Archives was kindly provided by the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. I am indebted to Nichole Sterling for her translation from the Swedish. Source for the key experiment and for Nobel prize nominations 1945-1948. 

R.A. Hulse The discovery of the binary pulsar, Les Prix Nobel 1993, 58-79. The Nobel Foundation (1994)... 

Figure 1.1 The modern eras of physical chemistry, according to Flerschbach [3], Illustration by Shah Koshbin courtesy of Professor Flerschbach and the Nobel Foundation.

The photographs of early researchers in biochemistry are reproduced with the kind permission of Elsevier Science Publishers The Nobel Foundation The Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford Oxford University Press Annual Reviews, Inc. L.A. Stocken and Pergamon Press. 

Nobel e-Museum. 2002. Nobel Lectures. Stockholm Nobel Foundation. 

Nobel e-Museum. 2002. Nobel Lectures. Stockholm Nobel Foundation, http //www.nobel.se/. Suffness, M. and M. E. Wall. 1995. Discovery and Development of Taxol. In Taxol Science and Applications, Suffness, M., ed., Boca Raton, FL CRC Press. 

I acknowledge the gracious permissions by the Nobel Foundation, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Library, Cambridge University Press, and John Wiley to reproduce the photographs and figures. 

Fig. 5.2 1956 Noble Laureates of Physiology and Medicine (A) Werner Forssman, (B) Andre Frederic Cournand, (C) Dickinson W. Richards ( The Nobel Foundation)...

Nobel Foundation The Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Available online. URL http //nobelprize.org/nobel prizes/chemistry/. Accessed May 28, 2009. Ever since 1901, when Dutch chemist Jacobus H. van t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on equilibrium and the rates of chemical reactions, the Nobel Foundation has recognized and awarded important advances in chemistry. This... 

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. Nobel Foundation Web site. http //nobelprize.oig/nobel prizes/physics/laureates/1906/. 

The Nobel Foundation, nobel prizes/> Acceptance speeches and background information on Nobel laureates. 

Nobel Foundation, Editors, "Nobel, the Man and His Prizes , Elsevier, Amsterdam (1962)... 

Ringertz, N. Alfred Nobel s health and his interest in medicine, The official web side of the Nobel foundation [2000],... 

Pcnrias. A. A. The Origin of the Elements. Les Prix Nobel er 1978. Nobel Foundation. Stockholm, also "Nobel Lectures." tin English). Elsevier. Amsterdam and New York t 979) also reprinted in Science, 205, 549-554 119791-Pool, R. "Basic Measurements Lead in Physics Nohel." Science. 327 (October 20. 1989). 

Nobel Foundation http //www.nobel.se/nobeL nobel-foundation/index.htmL... 

Over the years, with the addition of new prize categories, the governors of tire Nobel Foundation necessarily have amended certain procedures. The Foundation is governed by a five-person board of control made up of one appointment by the King of Sweden and one each as appointed by the aforementioned organizations (now referred to as Nobel Institutes). Members of the selection board are appointed for a period of 4 years, The science awards are presented on December 10 (anniversary of Nobel s death) ofeachyearat the Stockholm Concert Hall, with personal felicitation of the King of Sweden, The Peace prize is presented in a formal ceremony in Oslo. 

We thank the Nobel Foundation for letting us reproduce their photographs of Melvin Calvin, Tom Cech, Edward Lewis, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Erwin Neher, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Bert Sakmann, Hans Spemann and Eric Weischaus. Photographs of Frederick Steward (Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 12, 1971) and Dan Koshland (Annu. Rev. Biochem. 65, 1996) are reproduced with permission from Annual Reviews Inc. 

M. Calvin, The path of carbon in photosynthesis, in Nobel Foundation, Nobel Lectures. Chemistry 1942-1962 (Amsterdam Elsevier, 1964), 619-644. 

A Nobel lecture translated by P. Legzdins and G. O. Wiedersatz, Technical University, Munich. Copyright The Nobel Foundation, 1974. 

Paul Ehrlich Biography. The Nobel Foundation. Available from . 

Nobel Foundation E-Museum. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923. Available from . 

Abrahamsson, S. Pascher, I. "Structure of Biological Membranes", Nobel Foundation Symposium 1977, 34 (Nobel Foundation Symposium Series). 

Langreth, D. C. Theory of plasmon effects in high energy spectroscopy. In Collective properties of physical systems. Lundqvist, B., Lundqvist, S. (eds.), pp. 210-222. Nobel Symposium 24. Stockholm. The Nobel Foundation, Academic Press 1973... 

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