# Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates from 1901 to 1919

Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 1901 and 1919, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 27 votes · 17 items
- Feb 19, 2019 · Neha P.
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## Top 17

1. **Hermann Emil Fischer** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1902. In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses.
2. **Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1901. In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
3. **Svante August Arrhenius** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1903. In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation.
4. **Henri Moissan** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1906. In recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him.
5. **Wilhelm Ostwald** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1909. In recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction.
6. **Theodore William Richards** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1914. In recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements.
7. **William Ramsay** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1904. In recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system.
8. **Adolf von Baeyer** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1905. In recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds.
9. **Eduard Buchner** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1907. For his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation.
10. **Ernest Rutherford** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1908. For his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
11. **Marie Curie, née Skłodowska** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1911. In recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.
12. **Victor Grignard** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1912. For the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry.
13. **Paul Sabatier** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1912. For his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years.
14. **Otto Wallach** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1910. In recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds.
15. **Alfred Werner** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1913. In recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry.
16. **Fritz Haber** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1918. For the synthesis of ammonia from its elements.
17. **Richard Martin Willstätter** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1915. For his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll.

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