Les prix Nobel sont des prix décernés chaque année, sauf exceptions, à des personnes, ou à des organismes (prix Nobel de la paix), sous l'autorité de la Fondation Nobel par l'Académie royale des sciences de Suède (physique et chimie), l'Académie suédoise (littérature), l'Institut Karolinska (physiologie ou médecine) et le comité Nobel norvégien du parlement (paix).

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich. These underpin applications to both to chemistry with NMR …

A chemist (from Greek chēm(ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchemist) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry.Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms.Chemists carefully measure substance …

Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University.In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new …

The first synthesis and elucidation of the structure of the cocaine molecule was by Richard Willstätter in 1898. It was the first biomimetic synthesis of an organic structure recorded in academic chemical literature. The synthesis started from tropinone, a …

Leben. Svante August Arrhenius wurde als Sohn von Svante Georg Arrhenius (1813–1885) und seiner Frau Carolina Christina (geb. Thunberg) (1820–1906) auf dem Gut Wik am Mälarsee geboren. Der Vater arbeitete zunächst als Landvermesser und wurde später „Akademievogt“ an der Universität Uppsala, an welcher er selbst studiert hatte.Die schlechte Bezahlung dieses …

George Andrew Olah (born Oláh András György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian chemist.After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he emigrated to the United Kingdom, which he left for Canada in 1964, finally resettling in the United States in 1965. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids.For this research, Olah was awarded a …

Giulio Natta nacque a Porto Maurizio, allora capoluogo dell'omonima provincia (quella di Imperia nacque negli anni 1920 dalla fusione con Oneglia), il 26 febbraio 1903, figlio di Francesco Maria, magistrato, e di Elena Crespi.La madre, già vedova di un rinomato medico inglese dal quale aveva avuto una figlia, si occupò attivamente dell'educazione di Giulio sin dai primi anni, …

Sir William Lawrence Bragg, Kt, CH, OBE, MC, FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure.He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915, "For their services in the ...