Centenary of the Award of a Nobel Prize to Eduard Buchner,the Father of Biochemistry in a Test Tube and Thus of Experimental Molecular Bioscience

摘要

Alfred Nobel was a pro-research preparative and industrial chemist who was sometimes hotheaded,but was always authoritative with a good head for business combined with marketing expertise at a time that was to witness economic booms in arms manufacture and tunnel construction.This melancholic loner 112 years ago dedicated his huge fortune,built up in times of both war and peace,to a set of annual prizes.