Nobel prize missed

Professor Hahn is a native of Frankfort-on-the Main. He collaborated with Sir William Ramsay, and later with Miss Lise Meitner, and in 1944 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on atomic fission. He is a member of the German Atomic Weight Commission and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. Miss Meitner, who was also on the staff of this Institute, is a native of Vienna. 

Otto Hahn, 1879-. President of the Max Planck Society for the Promotion of Science. Discoverer with F. Strassmann, in 1938, of the splitting of uranium and of thorium by neutron irradiation into two elements of medium weight. Discoverer of radioactinium, radiothorium, mesotliorium, uranium Z, and (with Miss Lise Meitner) protactinium. He has devised radioactive methods for determining the geologic and biologic age of materials. In 1945 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 1944. 

This observation led to the discovery that a dietary compound (extrinsic factor) was absorbed only after combination with a protein secreted by the normal stomach (intrinsic factor [IF]), and that the IF was missing from the secretions of the atrophic stomach found in patients with PA. The extrinsic factor, later named vitamin B12, was obtained in crystalline form in 1948, and its structure was defined by x-ray crystallography by Dorothy Hodgkins, an accomplishment for which she received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964. 

Sherwood Roland, Mario Molina, and Paul Crutzen made the most dramatic contribution to the puzzle of the missing ozone when they proposed that manmade chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons were the key ingredient. They subsequently were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work. 

As for modeling and advancement in the description of chemical bonding prior to quantum chemistry, the importance of Gilbert N. Lewis s (Fig. 1.3a) contributions could hardly be overestimated. They were trend-setters in the first half of twentieth century chemistry and his missing Nobel Prize has been rightly lamented about a great deal. 

December 9, 1919-April 14, 2011), Emeritus Professor at Harvard University and the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Professor Lipscomb, one of the founders of theoretical and structural polyhedral boron chemistry, had dedicated much of his career to promoting boron science, which is the subject of this book. Much of the progress in these endeavors rests on Professor Lipscomb s original work on bonding in boranes. His dedication to our global society is hereby recognized and saluted. We miss him. 

FIGURE 7.7 Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was an Austrian physicist who first described the splitting of a uranium nucleus as fission and Otto Hahn (1879-1968) who was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry for analyzing the elemental fragments of uranium fission. He missed the Nobel ceremony because at the time he was a prisoner of war in a British camp. Meitner was later recognized for her key role in the interpretation of Hahn s data when the United States awarded her the Fermi Award jointly with Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann. Judging by her youthful appearance this was probably taken at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin in 1913. Details are given by David Bodanis in the historical novel E=mc. ... 

Joliot-Curies were the first to demonstrate induced radioactivity. They also discovered the positron, a particle that scientists had been seeking for many years. They narrowly missed finding another, more fundamental particle, the neutron. That honor went to James Chadwick in England. In 1935, Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot received the Nobel Prize in Physics. The award came too late for Irene s mother, who had died of leukemia in 1934. Twenty-two years later, Irene Curie-Joliot died of the same disease. Both women acquired leukemia through prolonged exposure to radiation. 

Lagerkvist U (2012) The Periodic Table and a missed Nobel Prize. World Scientific, Singapore, p 100-114... 

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