Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates from 1901 to 1919
The top 3 according to 27 votes from people: Hermann Emil Fischer · Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff · Svante August Arrhenius. (Updated Feb 19, 2019.)
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?
Top 17
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Hermann Emil Fischer
1902. In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses.
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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1901. In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
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Svante August Arrhenius
1903. In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation.
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Henri Moissan
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.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
1909. In recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction.
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Theodore William Richards
1914. In recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements.
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William Ramsay
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.
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Adolf von Baeyer
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.
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Eduard Buchner
1907. For his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation.
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Ernest Rutherford
1908. For his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
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Marie Curie, née Skłodowska
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.
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Victor Grignard
1912. For the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry.
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Paul Sabatier
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.
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Otto Wallach
1910. In recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds.
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Alfred Werner
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.
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Fritz Haber
1918. For the synthesis of ammonia from its elements.
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Richard Martin Willstätter
1915. For his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll.
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Comments (9)
Marie Curie's second Nobel, in a different science!
Ostwald and catalysis, foundational.
Emil Fischer, sugars and purines.
Ramsay and the noble gases.
Rutherford won in chemistry even though he considered himself a physicist.
Grignard reagents, every organic chemistry student knows them.
Fritz Haber's prize is a complicated one...
Arrhenius and the greenhouse effect, way ahead of his time.
Van 't Hoff, first ever Chemistry Nobel.