Chemistry laureates call for public talks, researchNobel laureates Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. for chemistry called for more independent research and chances to communicate their achievements to the public on Thursday in Vienna, where they were attending an annual Nobel seminar. "One of the problems that we are facing in the 21st century is the appreciation by the public of what's so significant about science and how this basic science... impacts our society in general," 1999 Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. winner Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد حسن زويل) (born February 26 1946 in Damanhur, Egypt) is an Egyptian American scientist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. told reporters. The Vienna Seminar of Nobel Laureates, held for the fourth time, was "important... especially in these difficult times where research funding Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of both "hard" science and technology and social science. The term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated and is not granted a priori a priori In epistemology, knowledge that is independent of all particular experiences, as opposed to a posteriori (or empirical) knowledge, which derives from experience. ," noted Heinz Engl, vice-rector of the University of Vienna History The University was founded on March 12, 1365 by Duke Rudolph IV and his brothers Albert III and Leopold III, hence the additional name "Alma Mater Rudolphina". After the Charles University in Prague, the University of Vienna is the second oldest university in Central , one of the organisers of the event. "It is wonderful to see that you can bring people who have done some achievement to communicate to the public and explain to the public where we are," Zewail, who is Egyptian, added. Researchers do not always know where their work could lead, "but hopefully the kind of questions we ask are of significance, so that in the end we can impact our society in one way or another, and if we don't do it today we might do it tomorrow," he noted. Kurt Wuethrich of Switzerland, 2002 Nobel prize winner for chemistry, pointed out that many laureates emerged from independent research facilities and called for more. "It's really strong proof of how important it is to create the right climate for unencumbered free research that is not founded on short-term profits," he said. Following calls in the scientific community for the Nobel Prize to include other categories, such as environmental science, the laureates also said they were happy with the present awards. List of Nobel Chemistry laureates "The Nobel prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme 1902 Élie Ducommun C. A. we have today cover everything," noted Wuethrich. Instead, other prizes should reward achievements in other fields. "Let's hope that some of these other areas become just as prestigious because they will have their own prizes," said last year's Nobel chemistry laureate Roger Tsien. "There's no need to force them under the Nobel umbrella." The two-day seminar includes talks and university lectures by Tsien, Zewail and Wuethrich, as well as Germany's Robert Huber For the U.S. Representative from Michigan, see Robert J. Huber. Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier. and Jean-Marie Lehn of France, Nobel Chemistry Prize winners in 1988 and 1987. 
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