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Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Name Year The Work
William S. Knowles, USA
Ryoji Noyori, Japan
K. Barry Sharpless, USA
2001 for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa 2000 for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
Ahmed H. Zewail 1999 For his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscop
Walter Kohn, U.S.A
John A. Pople, Great Britain
1998 "to Walter Kohn for his development of the density-functional theory and to John Pople for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry."
BOYER, PAUL D., U.S.A
WALKER, JOHN E., Great Britain
1997 "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"
SKOU, JENS C., Denmark 1997 "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase"
CURL, ROBERT F. JR., U.S.A
KROTO, Sir HAROLD W, Great Britain
SMALLEY, RICHARD E., U.S.A
1996 "for their discovery of fullerenes"
CRUTZEN, PAUL J., Netherlands
MOLINA, MARIO J., U.S.A.
ROWLAND, F. SHERWOOD, U.S.A
1995 "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
OLAH, GEORGE A., U.S.A. 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
MULLIS, KARY B., U.S.A 1993 "for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"  and
"for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
SMITH, MICHAEL, Canada 1993 "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleiotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"
MARCUS, RUDOLPH A., U.S.A 1992 "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in  chemical systems"
ERNST, RICHARD R., Switzerland 1991 "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
COREY, ELIAS JAMES, U.S.A 1990 "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
ALTMAN, SIDNEY, U.S.A
CECH, THOMAS R.
1989 "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
DEISENHOFER, JOHANN, Germany
HUBER, ROBERT
MICHEL, HARTMUT
1988 "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"

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