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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

2Records
1902–2021Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1902

Hermann Emil Fischer10 December 1902

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on sugar and purine synthesis.

2021

Benjamin List10 December 2021

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Names involved

Benjamin ListHermann Emil Fischer

Provenance

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