A unique international exhibition titled “Chemistry: Our Life, Our Future – The Nobel Chemistry Prizes 1901-2010” opens Tuesday evening at the National Research Foundation in central Athens. The exhibition is organised by the Museum of the Hellenic Nobel Collection, under the auspices of President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias.
Described by international media as: “A unique opportunity for the global scientific and cultural projection of Greece”. The exhibition is organised in the context of the 2011 International Year of Chemistry.
Rare objects of research, unpublished documents, photographs, diaries, books and other items from Alfred Nobel’s (1833-1896) chemistry products factory in the Italian town of Avigliana will be presented for the first time in Greece (at the National Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, Athens) and in Italy (Avigliana municipality, Turin, on the 150th anniversary of the Republic of Italy 1861-2011).
All items in both exhibitions belong to the Museum of the Hellenic Nobel Collection, the result of 20 years of methodical work and research throughout the world.
A rare collection of precision scales used by Alfred Nobel in Avigliana for his chemistry experiments (1870-1895), the invention of dynamite (1866) and tens of other patents, will be on display for the first time, only in Athens.
Also on display in both exhibitions, is a unique collection of photographs from the Avigliana laboratory. The photos belonged to the personal collection of the German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), later a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Museum of the Hellenic Nobel Collection discovered Kaiser Wilhelm’s II photography collection in Argentina and acquired it in 2000.
(source: ana-mpa)
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