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Nobel Prize

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

11Records
1902–2021Date range
11Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1902

Emil Herman Fischer1902

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

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

1918

Fritz Haber1918

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the synthesis of ammonia from its elements, a process of major importance to industrial chemistry.

1925

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1925

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for demonstrating the heterogeneous nature of colloidal solutions and developing methods fundamental to modern colloid chemistry.

1928

Adolf Windaus1928

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the constitution of sterols and their relationship to vitamins.

1930

Hans Fischer1930

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on hemin and chlorophyll, including the synthesis of hemin.

1938

Richard Kuhn1938

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins.

1939

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt1939

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on sex hormones.

1944

Otto Hahn1944

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the fission of heavy atomic nuclei.

1953

Hermann Staudinger1953

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries in macromolecular chemistry that established the concept of long-chain polymer molecules.

2014

Stefan W. Hell2014

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

2021

Benjamin List2021

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Names involved

Adolf Friedrich Johann ButenandtAdolf WindausBenjamin ListEmil Herman FischerFritz HaberHans FischerHermann StaudingerOtto HahnRichard Adolf ZsigmondyRichard KuhnStefan W. Hell

Provenance

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