Nobel medal

By the time Haber received his Nobel medal, his mind already was stuck on another idea, another innovation that he hoped would rescue Germany. This time, the predicament was a financial one. The German mark was collapsing. 

There is a story that may or may not be true about Otto Frisch searching for a word to describe the process he and Lise Meitner were about to propose when he ran into Hevesy and asked him what biologists call the process of cell division. Hevesy supposedly answered fission. " A more verifiable story concerning Hevesy however is that when the Nazis overran Denmark, Hevesy saved Nobel medals entrusted to Bohr for safekeeping by dissolving them in acid and storing the solutions in old beer bottles. After the war the gold was recovered and the medals were recast. 

Ipatieff never received the honor he coveted the most, the Nobel Prize. However, he continued to publish voluminously and, ever the practical scientist, he obtained numerous patents. He continued to receive honors in the United States and internationally. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the prestigious Gibbs medal for his many achievements. Ipatieff lived long enough to see the petroleum industry transformed with process technologies that he created and that were rooted in his early scientific research. The first platforming plant, the cuhniiiation of his life s work in catalytic research, came on line just shortly before his death in 1952. 

In addition, ft is by no means cleer that successful predictions were in bcl so decisive in the acceptance of the periodic tabic by the sciunllfic community in Mmddecv s era. For example, the Davy medal, which predates the Nobel Prize as the highest accolade in chords-try was jointly awarded to Mendeleev and Julius Lothar Meyer his leading compellor, who dkt not make aery predictions. Indeed, there is not even a mention of Mendeleev s predictions in the published speech that accompanied the joint award of the Davy prize. It therefore scons dial this prize was awarded for the manner in which the... 

Efforts to get Patterson a Nobel Peace Prize proved unsuccessful, despite Saul Bellow s frequent nominations. However, Patterson was elected to the National Academy of Science Asteroid 2511 was named for him and he won both the Goldschmidt Medal of the Geochemical Society and the 150,000 John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the highest award for environmental science. Finally, with retirement nearing, he agreed to become a Caltech professor. 

In 1967, Bengt Lindberg was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was a member of the Nobel committee for chemistry between 1974 and 1987. He presented the prize winners of 1979 (Herbert Brown and Georg Wittig) and the prize winner of 1984 (Bruce Merrifield). He received a number of Swedish awards for his scientific contributions, including the Celsius medal (1985). He was awarded the Haworth Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1981) and was the first non-American to receive the Hudson Award from the American Chemical Society (1983). 

But how He didn t want to bury them because they could always be found and dug up.The Nazis made sending gold out of the country illegal, and the medals had the names of the Nobel Prize winners on them, so if they were discovered, James and Max would be imprisoned, or worse. A scientist named George de Hevesy helped solved the problem. George was a chemist who later won a Nobel Prize for his work in chemistry. 

Story of the Gold Medal and Nazis, as well as other Nobel laureate stories. http //nobelprize.org/nobel prizes/medals/... 

Woodward was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions in the field of chemical synthesis. He received many other awards also, including the Davy Medal (1959) and the Copley Medal (1978) of the Royal Society and the U.S. National Medal of Science (1964). He died of a heart attack in Cambridge on July 8,1979. 

FLORY, PALL J. (1910-1986). An American chemist who won the Nobel prize in 1974 for his work in polymer chemistry. He published extensive work tvn Ihe physical chemistry of polymers and macromolecules. He held many medals and awards. Flory received his doctorate from Ohio Slate University in 1924. He was the C. J. Wood professor of chemistry at Stanford University. 

Dr. Langmuir received twenty-three scientific medals anil prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 lor his work on surface chemistry. 

In 1980, at age 35, Schrock (Fig. 8.6) was promoted to full professor at MIT and named the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry in 1989. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academy of Science. Apart from the Nobel Prize, he received inter alia the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, an ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Medal. In the concluding remarks of his Nobel Lecture [78], he emphasized that he and others have come an enormous distance in the last 30 years, from... 

Grubbs (Fig. 8.7) was named Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Caltech in 1990 and, apart from the Nobel Prize, has received a long list of awards including the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry, the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, the ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic... 

Methods, the ACS Arthur C. Cope Award, and the Paul Karrer Gold Medal. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. In his Nobel Lecture [163], he conceded that starting from seemingly unrelated work, our investigations into the fundamental chemistry of this transformation have been an exciting journey, with major advances often resulting from complete surprises, mistakes, and simple intuition. Ultimately, these efforts have contributed to olefin metathesis becoming the indispensable synthetic tool that it is today . 

Presidential Medal of Merit for weapons research made important discoveries in X-ray crystallography, electron diffraction, quantum mechanics, biochemistry, molecular psychiatry, nuclear physics, anesthesia, immunology, and evolution, written more than 400 articles, and created the century s most influential chemistry textbooks. He was the youngest person ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1954 had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

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