Nobel Prizes

H. C. Brown (the pioneer of hydroboration chemistry, Nobel Prize, 1979), in contrast, concluded that in solvolysis both 1-exo and 2-endo 

Watson s vivid and outspoken account of how he and Crick discovered the structure of DNA (and won themselves a Nobel Prize) - one of the greatest scientific achievements of the century. 

The principles of operation of quadnipole mass spectrometers were first described in the late 1950s by Wolfgang Paul who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for this development. The equations governing the motion of an ion in a quadnipole field are quite complex and it is not the scope of the present article to provide the reader with a complete treatment. Rather, the basic principles of operation will be described, the reader being referred to several excellent sources for more complete infonnation [13, H and 15]. 

In cases of more effective 7t-electron donor or tz-donor neighboring groups, as is the case in forming /3-phenylethyl (studied by Don Cram from UCLA Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1987) or /3-halogen bridged species, these have sufficient electrons to form 2e-2c bonds (with some intermediate delocalization). 

Iter Kolin, whose name appears on the two key papers wliich provided the impetus for the lopment of modern density functional theory, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in, jointly witli Jolin Pople. 

A definition of catalysis similar to that given above was stated first in about 1895 by Wilhelm Ostwald, whose work on catalysis was recognized with a Nobel prize. Sixty years before, Jakob Berzelius had coined the tenn 

We also received a solid edncation in mathematics, as well as some physics and chemistry. Although, among others, the physicist Lorand Eotvos and the chemist George Flevesy (Nobel Prize in 1943) attended the same Piarist school in earlier years, I learned about this only years later and cannot remember that anybody mentioned them as role-models during my school years. Classes were from 8 AM to 1 PM six days a week, with extensive homework for the rest of the day. I did 

Intensive, critical studies of a controversial topic also help to eliminate the possibility of errors. One of my favorite quotations is by George von Bekesy, a fellow Hungarian-born physicist who studied fundamental questions of the inner ear and hearing (Nobel Prize in medicine, 1961)  

In the summer of 1963, I learned that I had won the American Chemical Society Award in Petroleum Chemistry for my work on Friedel-Crafts chemistry. It was a most welcome recognition for someone who only a few years earlier had fled his native country and started all over on a far-away continent. Although I have received numerous other awards and recognitions over the years, with the exception of the Nobel Prize, no other award touched me as much. 1 remember that my first ACS award carried with it a check for 5,000. My research director for some reason believed that a company employee was not 

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