2009-03-16

Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 1

1901
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff : Netherlands : for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
1902
Hermann Emil Fischer : Germany : for his work on sugar and purine syntheses.
1903
Svante August Arrhenius : Sweden : for his electrolytic theory of dissociation.
1904
Sir William Ramsay : United Kingdom : for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system.
1905
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer : Germany : for his work on dyes and hydroaromatic compounds.
1906
Henri Moissan : France : for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the electric furnace named after him.
1907
Eduard Buchner : Germany : for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation.
1908
Ernest Rutherford : New Zealand/United Kingdom : for his investigations into the disintergration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
1909
Wilhelm Ostwald : Germany : his work on catalysis and for his investigation into chemical equilibra and rates of reaction.
1910
Otto Wallach : Germany : for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds.
1911
Maria Sklodowska-Curie : Poland/France : for her discovery of radium and polonium.
1912
Victor Grignard : France : for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent.
Paul Sabatier : Frnace : for his method of hrdrogenating organic compounds.
1913
Alfred Werner : Switzerland : for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules.
1914
Theodore William Richards : United States : for his determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of elemnets.
1915
Richard Martin Willstatter : Germany : for his research on plant pigments.
1916 no award
1917 no award
1918
Fritz Haber : Germany : for his synthesis of ammonia.
1919 no award
1920
Walther Hermann Nernst : Germany : for his work in thermochemistry.
1921
Frederick Soddy : United Kingdom : for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and investigations into isotopes.
1922
Francis William Aston : Untied Kingdom : for his discovery of isotopes in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his whole number rule.
1923
Fritz Pregl : Austria : for his invention of the method of micro-nalysis of organic substances.
1924 no award
1925
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy : Germany : for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and the methods used.
1926
Theodor Svedberg : Sweden : for his work on disperse systems.
1927
Heinrich Otto Wieland : Germany : for his investigations of the bile acids and related substances.
1928
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus : Germany : for his research into sterols and their connection with vitamins.
1929
Arthur Harden : United Kingdom : for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and
Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin : Sweden : fermentative enzymes.
1930
Hans Fischer : Germany : for his research into haemin and chlorophyll.
1931
Carl Bosch & Friedrich Bergius : Germany : for their contributions to chemical high pressure methods.
1932
Irving Langmuir : United States : for his work in surface chemistry.
1933 no award
1934
Harold Clayton Urey : United States : for his discovery of heavy hydrogen.
1935
Frederic Joliot & Irene Joliot-Curie : France : for their synthesis of new radioactive elements.
1936
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye : Netherlands : for his work on molecular structure through investigations on dipole moments and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases.
1937
Walter Norman Haworth : United Kingdom : for his work on carbohydrates and vitamin C.
Paul Karrer : Switzerland : for his work on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2.
1938
Richard Kuhn : Germany : for his work on carotenoids and vitamins.
1939
Adolf Butenandt : Germany : for his work on sex hormones.
Leopold Ruzicka : Croatia/Switzerland : for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes.
1940 no award
1941 no award
1942 no award
1943
George de Hevesy : Hungary : for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers to study chemical processes.
1944
Otto Hahn : Germany : for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.
1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen : Finland : for his research and investigations in agricaltural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method.
1946
James Batcheller Sumner : United States : for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized.
John Howard Northrop & Wendell Meredith Stanley : United States : for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form.
1947
Sir Robert Robinson : United Kingdom : for his investigations on plant products, especially the alkaloids.
1948
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius : Sweden : for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis.
1949
William Francis Giauque : United States : for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics.
1950
Otto Paul Hermann Diels & Kurt Alder : West Germany : for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis. Diels-Alder reaction.
1951
Edwin Mattison McMillan & Glenn Theodore Seaborg : United States : for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements.
1952
Archer John Porter Martin & Richard Laurence Millington Synge : United Kingdom : for their invention of partition chromatography.
1953
Hermann Staudinger : West Germany : for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry.
1954
Linus Carl Pauling : United States : for his research into the nature of the chemical bound.
1955
Vincent du Vigneaud : United States : for his work on sulphur compounds, especially the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.
1956
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood : United Kingdom : for their research into the mechanism of
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov : Soviet Union : chemical reactions.
1957
Sir Alexander Todd : United Kingdom : for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
1958
Frederick Sanger : United Kingdom : for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin.
1959
Jaroslav Heyrovsky : Czechoslovakia : for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis.
1960
Willard Frank Libby : United States : for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination.


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