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Nobel Prize

France · Science / Chemistry. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1935–2020Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1935

Irene Joliot-Curie10 December 1935

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for artificial radioactivity.

2016

Jean-Pierre Sauvage2016

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

2020

Emmanuelle Charpentier7 October 2020

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9.

Names involved

Emmanuelle CharpentierIrene Joliot-CurieJean-Pierre Sauvage

Provenance

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