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Nobel Prize

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

14Records
1904–2019Date range
14Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1904

William Ramsay1904

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the inert gaseous elements in air and determining their place in the periodic system.

1908

Ernest Rutherford1908

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.

1921

Frederick Soddy1921

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the chemistry of radioactive substances and for investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes.

1922

Francis William Aston1922

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering isotopes in many non-radioactive elements with the mass spectrograph and for formulating the whole-number rule.

1937

Walter Norman Haworth1937

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for investigations of carbohydrates and vitamin C, including important structural work on sugars.

1952

Archer John Porter Martin1952

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing partition chromatography, a technique that greatly improved the separation and analysis of chemical mixtures.

Richard Laurence Millington Synge1952

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing partition chromatography and establishing a powerful new method for separating chemical substances.

1957

Alexander Robertus Todd1957

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on nucleotides and nucleotide coenzymes, clarifying the chemistry of important biological molecules.

1962

John Cowdery Kendrew1962

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of globular proteins, especially myoglobin, through X-ray crystallography.

Max Ferdinand Perutz1962

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of globular proteins, particularly haemoglobin, by X-ray analysis.

1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin1964

Science / Chemistry

Uses x-rays to examine the structure of penicillin, insulin, cholesterol & vitamin b12

2017

Richard Henderson2017

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules.

2018

Gregory P. Winter2018

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing phage display of peptides and antibodies.

2019

M Stanley Whittingham10 December 2019

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on lithium-ion batteries.

Names involved

Alexander Robertus ToddArcher John Porter MartinDorothy Crowfoot HodgkinErnest RutherfordFrancis William AstonFrederick SoddyGregory P. WinterJohn Cowdery KendrewM Stanley WhittinghamMax Ferdinand PerutzRichard HendersonRichard Laurence Millington SyngeWalter Norman HaworthWilliam Ramsay

Provenance

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