Video Nobel Lectures
According to the Nobel Foundation statutes, the Nobel Laureates are required "to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded". The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in the case of the Peace Prize, in Oslo on 10 December. Click on the names of the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry below to see their Nobel Lectures.
Video Lectures from Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
- 2008
- Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP
Nobel Lecture by Osamu Shimomura » - GFP: Lighting Up Life
Nobel Lecture by Martin Chalfie » - Constructing and Exploiting the Fluorescent Protein Paintbox
Nobel Lecture by Roger Y. Tsien » - 2007
- Reactions at Solid Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity
Nobel Lecture by Gerhard Ertl » - 2006
- The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription
Nobel Lecture by Roger D. Kornberg » - 2005
- Olefin Metathesis: The Early Days
Nobel Lecture by Yves Chauvin » - Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and Materials
Nobel Lecture by Robert H. Grubbs » - Multiple Metal-Carbon Bonds for Catalytic Metathesis Reactions
Nobel Lecture by Richard R. Schrock » - 2004
- Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting
Nobel Lecture by Aaron Ciechanover » - The Ubiquitin System for Protein Degradation and some of its Roles in the Control of the Cell Division Cycle
Nobel Lecture by Avram Hershko » - Ubiquitin at Fox Chase
Nobel Lecture by Irwin Rose » - 2003
- Aquaporin Water Channels
Nobel Lecture by Peter Agre » - Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction
Nobel Lecture by Roderick MacKinnon » - 2002
- Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants
Nobel Lecture by John B. Fenn » - The Origin of Macromolecule Ionization by Laser Irradiation
Nobel Lecture by Koichi Tanaka » - NMR Studies of Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules
Nobel Lecture by Kurt Wüthrich » - 2001
- Asymmetric Hydrogenations
Nobel Lecture by William S. Knowles » - Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Technology
Nobel Lecture by Ryoji Noyori » - The Search for New Chemical Reactivity
Nobel Lecture by K. Barry Sharpless » - 2000
- Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials
Nobel Lecture by Alan Heeger » - "Synthetic Metals": A Novel Role for Organic Polymers
Nobel Lecture by Alan G. MacDiarmid » - The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers
Nobel Lecture by Hideki Shirakawa » - 1999
- Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers
Nobel Lecture by Ahmed Zewail »
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