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Adolf von Baeyer Summary
Adolf von Baeyer was a German research chemist who synthesized indigo (1880) and formulated its structure (1883). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1905. Baeyer studied with Robert Bunsen, but August Kekule exercised a greater influence on his development. He took his doctorate at the
Werner Arber Summary
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist, corecipient with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith of the United States of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1978. All three were cited for their work in molecular genetics, specifically the discovery and application of enzymes that break
Alexander Fleming on antiseptics Summary
Writing on the very eve (1928) of his famed accidental discovery of that world-changing antibiotic he called penicillin, Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), later Sir Alexander, laid out the problem his work would begin to solve. Fleming’s co-author was
Miguel Ángel Asturias Summary
Miguel Ángel Asturias was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 (see Nobel Lecture: “The Latin American Novel: Testimony of an Epoch”) and the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. His writings, which combine the mysticism of the Maya with