Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1990s
The top 3 according to 190 votes from people: Elias James Corey · Richard R. Ernst · Robert F. Curl Jr.. (Updated Sep 6, 2022.)
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?
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Top 18
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Elias James Corey
1990. For his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.
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Richard R. Ernst
1991. For his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
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Robert F. Curl Jr.
1996. For their discovery of fullerenes.
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Rudolph A. Marcus
1992. For his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.
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George A. Olah
1994. For his contribution to carbocation chemistry.
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Kary B. Mullis
1993. For contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry, [especially] for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.
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Mario J. Molina
1995. For their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
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Michael Smith
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.
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Frank Sherwood Rowland
1995. For their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
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Harold W. Kroto
1996. For their discovery of fullerenes.
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Walter Kohn
1998. For his development of the density-functional theory.
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Paul J. Crutzen
1995. For their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
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John E. Walker
1997. For their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Jens C. Skou
1997. For the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase.
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Paul D. Boyer
1997. For their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Richard E. Smalley
1996. For their discovery of fullerenes.
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Ahmed Zewail
1999. For his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
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John A. Pople
1998. For his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.
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Comments (7)
Olah y los carbocationes.
Corey y la retrosíntesis, la base de la química orgánica moderna.
Crutzen, Molina y Rowland salvaron la capa de ozono.
Kary Mullis y la PCR, que luego conocimos todos en la pandemia.
Mario Molina, primer mexicano con Nobel de Química, por la capa de ozono.
Ernst y la resonancia magnética nuclear.
Kroto, Curl y Smalley, el fullereno, ¡una pelota de fútbol de carbono!