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Frederick Sanger is one out of three laureates to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice in the same subject, in 1958 and 1980. John Bardeen, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972, and Karl Barry Sharpless, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 and 2022, are the others. Two others have won Nobel Prizes twice, one in ...
A. Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist. Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist. Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting. Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds. Peter Agre (born 1949), American chemist and doctor, 2003 ...
Linus Carl Pauling FRS (/ ˈpɔːlɪŋ / PAW-ling; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) [ 4 ] was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. [ 5 ] New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest ...
The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death. The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, of the Netherlands, "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". From 1901 to 2023, the award has been ...
Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [ 9 ] and the government of the Soviet ...
Linus Pauling, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1962, is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes; he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. [ 6 ] At 17 years of age, Malala Yousafzai , the 2014 recipient, is the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize.
Shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with H.von Euler-Chelpin [al] [164] Friedrich Bergius: October 11, 1884 Wrocław, Poland March 30, 1949 Buenos Aires, Argentina 1929, 1931: Shared the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with C.Bosch [ae]. [165] Walter Norman Haworth: March 19, 1883 White Coppice, England March 19, 1950 Barnt Green, England
Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez [a] (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020) [7] was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases.