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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 115 times to 194 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2023. Frederick Sanger and Barry Sharpless have both been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of chemistry.
Jul 3, 2019 · Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from 1901 to the Present. Jacobus van't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. By. Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. Updated on July 03, 2019. Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” Independently of each other, Ekimov and Brus succeeded in creating quantum dots, and Bawendi revolutionised the chemical production.
The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, of the Netherlands, "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". From 1901 to 2022, the award has been bestowed on a total of 192 individuals.
A comprehensive list of Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries"
Oct 5, 2022 · The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists whose work harnessed the power of molecular interaction and introduced new, unobtrusive ways of studying the natural world.
Martin Karplus, the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research “directed toward understanding the electronic structure, geometry, and dynamics of molecules of chemical and biological interest.”
