# Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 2010s

Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 2010 and 2019, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 21 votes · 27 items
- Aug 10, 2022 · cientifica_lento
- https://even.best/en/l/1227/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-laureates-of-the-2010s

## Top 27

1. **William E. Moerner** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2014. For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
2. **Richard F. Heck** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2010. For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
3. **Ei-ichi Negishi** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2010. For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
4. **Brian Kobilka** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2012. For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
5. **Akira Suzuki** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2010. For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
6. **Robert Lefkowitz** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2012. For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
7. **Stefan W. Hell** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2014. For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
8. **Paul L. Modrich** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. For mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
9. **Aziz Sancar** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. For mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
10. **Fraser Stoddart** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2016. For the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
11. **Ben Feringa** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2016. For the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
12. **George Smith** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2018. For the phage display of peptides and antibodies.
13. **Sir Gregory Winter** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2018. For the phage display of peptides and antibodies.
14. **Martin Karplus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2013. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
15. **Arieh Warshel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2013. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
16. **Eric Betzig** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2014. For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
17. **Tomas Lindahl** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2015. For mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
18. **Jean-Pierre Sauvage** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2016. For the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
19. **Jacques Dubochet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
20. **Richard Henderson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
21. **Frances Arnold** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2018. For the directed evolution of enzymes.
22. **John B. Goodenough** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. For the development of lithium ion batteries.
23. **M. Stanley Whittingham** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. For the development of lithium ion batteries.
24. **Akira Yoshino** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. For the development of lithium ion batteries.
25. **Dan Shechtman** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2011. For the discovery of quasicrystals.
26. **Michael Levitt** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2013. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
27. **Joachim Frank** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2017. For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

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