1. Tiểu sử Theodore William Richards was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA on January 31, 1868. His father, William T. Richards was a well-known painter of landscapes and seascapes: his mother, Anna, née Matlack, won fame for her poetical works. During his childhood, Richards travelled to England and France and, up to the age of […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913-Alfred Werner
1. Tiểu sử Alfred Werner, son of factory foreman J.A. Werner and his wife Jeanne, née Tesche, was born on December 12, 1866, at Mülhausen in Alsace, where he went to school. While he was at school he showed an interest in chemistry and did, when he was only 18, his first independent chemical research. […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912-Paul Sabatier
1.Tiểu sử Paul Sabatier was born at Carcassonne in Southern France on November 5, 1854. He was educated at the local Lycée and then prepared at Toulouse for the entrance examinations to the École Polytechnique and the École Normale Supérieure. He was accepted for both and chose the latter which he entered in 1874; three […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912-Victor Grignard
1. Tiểu sử François Auguste Victor Grignard was born in Cherbourg on May 6, 1871. He attended local schools during 1883-87 and in 1889 he won a scholarship to the École Normale Spécial at Cluny. After two years, the school, which was intended to produce teachers for modern secondary schools, was closed because of a […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911-Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
1. Tiểu sử Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910-Otto Wallach
1.Tiểu sử Otto Wallach was born on March 27, 1847, in Königsberg, Germany, the son of Gerhard Wallach and his wife, née Otillie Thoma. His father was a high-ranking civil servant, who later became Auditor General at Potsdam. During his early school years at the humanistic “Gymnasium” at Potsdam, Wallach had a profound liking for […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909-Wilhelm Ostwald
1. Tiểu sử Wilhelm Ostwald was born on September 2, 1853, in Riga, Latvia, as the son of master-cooper Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald and Elisabith Leuckel. He was educated at the “Real gymnasium” there and in 1872 was admitted to Dorpat University to read chemistry. After taking his final examinations three years later, he obtained the […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908-Ernest Rutherford
1. Tiểu sử Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, emigrated to New Zealand with Ernest’s grandfather and the whole family in 1842. His mother, née Martha Thompson, […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907-Eduard Buchner
1.Tiểu sử Eduard Buchner was born in Munich on May 20, 1860, the son of Dr. Ernst Buchner, Professor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine and physician at the University, and Friederike née Martin. He was originally destined for a commercial career but, after the early death of his father in 1872, his older brother Hans, ten […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906-Henri Moissan
1.Tiểu sử Henri Moissan was born in Paris on September 28, 1852. His advanced education began in the Collège de Meaux and later in Edmond Frémy’s laboratory at the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, where he attended lectures by E.H. Sainte-Claire Deville and Henri Debray. A year later, he removed to Dehérain’s laboratory in the École Pratique […]