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Nobel Laureate Prof Richard Ernst gave an inspiring and often humorous account of his life as a groundbreaking scientist when he addressed a public lecture at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science. “Everybody is a scientist or a chemist,” the 1991 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry said. “Some just do it [...]

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Prof Richard Ernst, will hold a public lecture entitled “NMR and its Nobel Glory” on Wednesday 27 January 2010 at Stellenbosch University as guest of the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science. The event will be held at 14:00 in the General Chemistry Building, Lecture Hall 1015. The renowned Swiss chemist’s talk [...]

Students from the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science of Stellenbosch University walked away with three of the six poster prizes to be awarded at the INORG2009, the 14th biennial international South African Chemical Institute (SACI) and Royal Society Dalton conference.What makes their achievements even more impressive is that the trio of Eugene Lakay, Hugo [...]