Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates from 1940 to 1959
The top 3 according to 101 votes from people: George de Hevesy · John Howard Northrop · Otto Hahn. (Updated Jul 13, 2023.)
Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 1940 and 1959, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
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Top 23
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George de Hevesy
1943. For his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes.
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John Howard Northrop
1946. For their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form.
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Otto Hahn
1944. For his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.
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James Batcheller Sumner
1946. For his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized.
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Wendell Meredith Stanley
1946. For their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form.
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1945. For his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method.
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Sir Robert Robinson
1947. For his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
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William Francis Giauque
1949. For his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures.
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Otto Paul Hermann Diels
1950. For their discovery and development of the diene synthesis.
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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1956. For their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions.
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Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
1956. For their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions.
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Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1948. For his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins.
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Linus Pauling
1954. For his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.
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Hermann Staudinger
1953. For his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry.
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Vincent du Vigneaud
1955. For his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.
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Frederick Sanger
1958. For his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin.
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1951. For their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements.
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Archer John Porter Martin
1952. For their invention of partition chromatography.
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Kurt Alder
1950. For their discovery and development of the diene synthesis.
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Edwin Mattison McMillan
1951. For their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements.
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Lord (Alexander R.) Todd
1957. For his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
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Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1952. For their invention of partition chromatography.
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Jaroslav Heyrovský
1959. For his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis.
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Comments (3)
Sanger ganaría otro en 1980, dos Nobel de Química.
Otto Hahn y la fisión nuclear, y Lise Meitner olvidada, injusticia.
Pauling, luego también el de la Paz.