# Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 2000s

Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 2000 and 2009, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 257 votes · 25 items
- Aug 3, 2020 · Andrew Pierce
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## Top 25

1. **Alan J. Heeger** (22 · ▲23 ▼1) — 2000. For their discovery and development of conductive polymers.
2. **William S. Knowles** (18 · ▲18 ▼0) — 2001. For their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.
3. **Hideki Shirakawa** (16 · ▲16 ▼0) — 2000. For their discovery and development of conductive polymers.
4. **Avram Hershko** (14 · ▲14 ▼0) — 2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
5. **Alan G. MacDiarmid** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — 2000. For their discovery and development of conductive polymers.
6. **K. Barry Sharpless** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — 2001. For his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions.
7. **Roderick MacKinnon** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — 2003. For discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, \[especially\] for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels.
8. **Roger Y. Tsien** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — 2008. . However, the press release from the Nobel Foundation on 8 October 2008, announcing the award, states that Shimomura is a Japanese citizen.
9. **Ryōji Noyori** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — 2001. For their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.
10. **Kurt Wüthrich** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — 2002. For the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules, \[especially\] for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
11. **Robert H. Grubbs** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — 2005. For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
12. **Yves Chauvin** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — 2005. For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
13. **Peter Agre** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 2003. For discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, \[especially\] for the discovery of water channels.
14. **Koichi Tanaka** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — 2002. For the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules, \[especially\] for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.
15. **Richard R. Schrock** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 2005. For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
16. **Osamu Shimomura** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 2008. . However, the press release from the Nobel Foundation on 8 October 2008, announcing the award, states that Shimomura is a Japanese citizen.
17. **Ada E. Yonath** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
18. **Irwin Rose** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
19. **Aaron Ciechanover** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — 2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
20. **Roger D. Kornberg** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2006. For his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.
21. **Thomas A. Steitz** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
22. **John B. Fenn** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 2002. For the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules, \[especially\] for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.
23. **Venkatraman Ramakrishnan** (1 · ▲5 ▼4) — 2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
24. **Martin Chalfie** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — 2008. . However, the press release from the Nobel Foundation on 8 October 2008, announcing the award, states that Shimomura is a Japanese citizen.
25. **Gerhard Ertl** (-3 · ▲2 ▼5) — 2007. For his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.

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