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Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 2010s

The top 3 according to 21 votes from people: William E. Moerner · Richard F. Heck · Ei-ichi Negishi. (Updated Aug 10, 2022.)

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?

cientifica_lento · · 27 items · 21 votes · 3 comments

Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original

Top 27

  1. 1

    William E. Moerner

    2014. For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  2. 2

    Richard F. Heck

    2010. For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  3. 3

    Ei-ichi Negishi

    2010. For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  4. 4

    Brian Kobilka

    2012. For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  5. 5

    Akira Suzuki

    2010. For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    Robert Lefkowitz

    2012. For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  7. 7

    Stefan W. Hell

    2014. For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  8. 8

    Paul L. Modrich

    2015. For mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  9. 9

    Aziz Sancar

    2015. For mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  10. 10

    Fraser Stoddart

    2016. For the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  11. 11

    Ben Feringa

    2016. For the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  12. 12

    George Smith

    2018. For the phage display of peptides and antibodies.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  13. 13

    Sir Gregory Winter

    2018. For the phage display of peptides and antibodies.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  14. 14

    Martin Karplus

    2013. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  15. 15

    Arieh Warshel

    2013. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  16. 16

    Eric Betzig

    2014. For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  17. 17

    Tomas Lindahl

    2015. For mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  18. 18

    Jean-Pierre Sauvage

    2016. For the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  19. 19

    Jacques Dubochet

    2017. For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  20. 20

    Richard Henderson

    2017. For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  21. 21

    Frances Arnold

    2018. For the directed evolution of enzymes.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  22. 22

    John B. Goodenough

    2019. For the development of lithium ion batteries.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  23. 23

    M. Stanley Whittingham

    2019. For the development of lithium ion batteries.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  24. 24

    Akira Yoshino

    2019. For the development of lithium ion batteries.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  25. 25

    Dan Shechtman

    2011. For the discovery of quasicrystals.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  26. 26

    Michael Levitt

    2013. For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1
  27. 27

    Joachim Frank

    2017. For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1

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catlady_pamplona · Español

Shechtman y los cuasicristales, se rieron de él durante años.

salsabrava_tranquilo · Español

Suzuki, Heck y Negishi, los acoplamientos que usamos todos en el laboratorio.

Luis Martínez Rivera · Español

Goodenough con 97 años, el ganador más mayor, por la batería de litio.

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