This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies in Stockholm for the period 2001 - 2005. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. This volume of inspiring lectures by outstanding chemists and biochemists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of chemistry as well as of those in related fields. Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 2001 - 2005 with a description of the works which won them their prizes.(2001) William S Knowles, Ryoji Noyori - for their work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions undefined (2002) John B Fenn, Koichi Tanaka - for their development of soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules undefined (2003) Peter Agre - for the discovery of water channels undefined (2004) Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko undefined (2005) Yves Chauvin, Robert H Grubbs & Richard R Schrock - for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
