# Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1990s

Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 1990 and 1999, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 190 votes · 18 items
- Sep 6, 2022 · Daniela Ospina Rodríguez
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## Top 18

1. **Elias James Corey** (18 · ▲20 ▼2) — 1990. For his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.
2. **Richard R. Ernst** (16 · ▲16 ▼0) — 1991. For his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
3. **Robert F. Curl Jr.** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — 1996. For their discovery of fullerenes.
4. **Rudolph A. Marcus** (11 · ▲14 ▼3) — 1992. For his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.
5. **George A. Olah** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — 1994. For his contribution to carbocation chemistry.
6. **Kary B. Mullis** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — 1993. For contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry, \[especially\] for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.
7. **Mario J. Molina** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — 1995. For their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
8. **Michael Smith** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1993. For contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry, \[especially\] for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.
9. **Frank Sherwood Rowland** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1995. For their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
10. **Harold W. Kroto** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1996. For their discovery of fullerenes.
11. **Walter Kohn** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — 1998. For his development of the density-functional theory.
12. **Paul J. Crutzen** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — 1995. For their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
13. **John E. Walker** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 1997. For their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
14. **Jens C. Skou** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1997. For the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase.
15. **Paul D. Boyer** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — 1997. For their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
16. **Richard E. Smalley** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1996. For their discovery of fullerenes.
17. **Ahmed Zewail** (0 · ▲3 ▼3) — 1999. For his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
18. **John A. Pople** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — 1998. For his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.

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