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Nobel Prize

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

4Records
1964–2019Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

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

Dorothy Crowfoot HodgkinGregory P. WinterM Stanley WhittinghamRichard Henderson

Provenance

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