Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 257 votes from people: Alan J. Heeger · William S. Knowles · Hideki Shirakawa. (Updated Aug 3, 2020.)
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?
Top 25
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Alan J. Heeger
2000. For their discovery and development of conductive polymers.
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William S. Knowles
2001. For their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.
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Hideki Shirakawa
2000. For their discovery and development of conductive polymers.
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Avram Hershko
2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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Alan G. MacDiarmid
2000. For their discovery and development of conductive polymers.
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K. Barry Sharpless
2001. For his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions.
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Roderick MacKinnon
2003. For discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, [especially] for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels.
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Roger Y. Tsien
2008. . However, the press release from the Nobel Foundation on 8 October 2008, announcing the award, states that Shimomura is a Japanese citizen.
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Ryōji Noyori
2001. For their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.
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Kurt Wüthrich
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.
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Robert H. Grubbs
2005. For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
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Yves Chauvin
2005. For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
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Peter Agre
2003. For discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, [especially] for the discovery of water channels.
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Koichi Tanaka
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.
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Richard R. Schrock
2005. For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
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Osamu Shimomura
2008. . However, the press release from the Nobel Foundation on 8 October 2008, announcing the award, states that Shimomura is a Japanese citizen.
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Ada E. Yonath
2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
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Irwin Rose
2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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Aaron Ciechanover
2004. For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
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Roger D. Kornberg
2006. For his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.
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Thomas A. Steitz
2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
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John B. Fenn
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.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
2009. For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
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Martin Chalfie
2008. . However, the press release from the Nobel Foundation on 8 October 2008, announcing the award, states that Shimomura is a Japanese citizen.
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Gerhard Ertl
2007. For his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.
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Comments (10)
Agre and MacKinnon, aquaporins and ion channels.
The ribosome structure in 2009, Ada Yonath.
Great decade.
Sharpless won a second one in 2022 for click chemistry!
Conductive polymers in 2000, Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa.
Green fluorescent protein in 2008, so beautiful.
Kornberg won like his father.
Ertl and surface chemistry.
Grubbs, Chauvin and Schrock for metathesis.
Koichi Tanaka, an engineer without a PhD winning the Nobel.