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Nobel Prize

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

3Records
1901–2016Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1901

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff1901

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning chemical dynamics and the laws of osmotic pressure in solutions.

1936

Peter J. W. Debye1936

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to molecular structure through studies of dipole moments and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases.

2016

Bernard L. Feringa2016

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

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

Names involved

Bernard L. FeringaJacobus Henricus van 't HoffPeter J. W. Debye

Provenance

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