Statistics for Nobel Prize Winners In Chemistry

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Year	Nationality	Reason for Award	Answer	% Correct
1911	Polish, French	"in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"	Marie Curie, née Sklodowska	96%
1933	No Award Given.		a	90%
1942	No Award Given.		a	90%
1941	No Award Given.		a	90%
1916	No Award Given.		a	90%
1917	No Award Given.		a	90%
1919	No Award Given.		a	90%
1940	No Award Given.		a	90%
1924	No Award Given.		a	90%
1918	German	"for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"	Fritz Haber	87%
1931	German	"in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"	Carl Bosch	86%
1973	West German	"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"	Ernst Otto Fischer	86%
1930	German	"for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin"	Hans Fischer	86%
1902	German	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses"	Hermann Emil Fischer	86%
1935	French	"in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"	Frederic Joliot	85%
	French		Irene Joliot-Curie	85%
1901	Dutch	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"	Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff	85%
1903	Swedish	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation"	Svante August Arrhenius	85%
1908	British, New Zealander	"for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"	Ernest Rutherford	84%
1961	American	"for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"	Melvin Calvin	84%
1944	Nazi German	"for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"	Otto Hahn	84%
1980	American	"for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA"	Paul Berg	84%
2010	Japanese	"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"	Akira Suzuki	83%
	Dutch		Ben Feringa	83%
1987	American	"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"	Donald J. Cram	83%
1922	British	"for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule"	Francis William Aston	83%
2007	German	"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"	Gerhard Ertl	83%
2016	French	"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"	Jean-Pierre Sauvage	83%
2002	American	"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules", "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"	John B. Fenn	83%
	West German		Kurt Alder	83%
	Canadian	"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry", "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"	Michael Smith	83%
1974	American	"for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules"	Paul J. Flory	83%
	American		Richard F. Heck	83%
1938	Austrian, Nazi German	"for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"	Richard Kuhn	83%
1991	Swiss	"for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"	Richard R. Ernst	83%
	American		Roald Hoffmann	83%
1996	American	"for their discovery of fullerenes"	Robert F. Curl Jr.	83%
	American		Robert H. Grubbs	83%
1989	Canadian, American	"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"	Sidney Altman	83%
	British		Sir J. Fraser Stoddart	83%
1904	British	"in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system"	Sir William Ramsay	83%
	Romanian, German		Stefan Hell	83%
1912	French	"for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry"	Victor Grignard	83%
1920	German	"in recognition of his work in thermochemistry"	Walther Hermann Nernst	83%
	Taiwanese		Yuan T. Lee	83%
2004	Israeli	"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"	Aaron Ciechanover	82%
1952	British	"for their invention of partition chromatography"	Archer John Porter Martin	82%
1972	American	"for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation"	Christian B. Anfinsen	82%
	German, Swedish		Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin	82%
1985	American	"for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures"	Herbert A. Hauptman	82%
	Japanese		Hideki Shirakawa	82%
1932	American	"for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry"	Irving Langmuir	82%
1963	West German	"for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"	Karl Ziegler	82%
1981	Japanese	"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"	Kenichi Fukui	82%
1957	British	"for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"	Lord (Alexander R.) Todd	82%
1967	West German	"for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy"	Manfred Eigen	82%
	American		Martin Chalfie	82%
	American, Israeli, British		Michael Levitt	82%
2008	Japanese	"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"	Osamu Shimomura	82%
1950	West German	"for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis"	Otto Paul Hermann Diels	82%
	American		Paul Modrich	82%
1978	British	"for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"	Peter D. Mitchell	82%
2015	Swedish, British	"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"	Tomas Lindahl	82%
2009	Indian, American, British	"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	82%
	American	"for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"	Walter Gilbert	82%
1909	German	"in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"	Wilhelm Ostwald	82%
2005	French	"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"	Yves Chauvin	82%
1982	British	"for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes"	Aaron Klug	81%
	Israeli		Ada E. Yonath	81%
1999	American, Egyptian	"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"	Ahmed H. Zewail	81%
1913	Swiss	"in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry"	Alfred Werner	81%
	Turkish		Aziz Sancar	81%
2014	American	"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"	Eric Betzig	81%
	British		George Porter	81%
	West German		Georg Wittig	81%
	Italian		Giulio Natta	81%
1934	American	"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"	Harold Clayton Urey	81%
	West German		Hartmut Michel	81%
1979	American	"for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"	Herbert C. Brown	81%
	American		Irwin Rose	81%
	British	"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"	John A. Pople	81%
	Swiss	"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules", "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"	Kurt Wuthrich	81%
1968	Norwegian, American	"for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"	Lars Onsager	81%
1970	Argentinian	"for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"	Luis F. Leloir	81%
2013	Austrian, American	"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"	Martin Karplus	81%
1910	German	"in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"	Otto Wallach	81%
1936	Dutch, American	"for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases"	Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye	81%
	American		Roger Y. Tsien	81%
	British		Ronald George Wreyford Norrish	81%
1992	Canadian, American	"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"	Rudolph A. Marcus	81%
2001	Japanese	"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"	Ryoji Noyori	81%
1914	American	"in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements"	Theodore William Richards	81%
1998	American	"for his development of the density-functional theory"	Walter Kohn	81%
1960	American	"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"	Willard Frank Libby	81%
	American		William E. Moerner	81%
1976	American	"for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"	William N. Lipscomb	81%
	American, Israeli		Arieh Warshel	80%
	American		Brian Kobilka	80%
1907	German	"for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation"	Eduard Buchner	80%
	Japanese		Ei-ichi Negishi	80%
1990	American	"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"	Elias James Corey	80%
1921	British	"for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes"	Frederick Soddy	80%
	British		Geoffrey Wilkinson	80%
1994	American, Hungarian	"for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"	George A. Olah	80%
1943	Nazi German, Hungarian	"for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"	George de Hevesy	80%
1983	Canadian, American	"for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"	Henry Taube	80%
	French		Jean-Marie Lehn	80%
1997	Danish	"for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase"	Jens C. Skou	80%
1905	German	"in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer	80%
	American	"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"	John Howard Northrop	80%
1975	Australian, British	"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"	John Warcup Cornforth	80%
	American	"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"	K. Barry Sharpless	80%
	Japanese		Koichi Tanaka	80%
1954	American	"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"	Linus Carl Pauling	80%
	French	"for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years"	Paul Sabatier	80%
2003	American	"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes", "for the discovery of water channels"	Peter Agre	80%
	West German		Robert Huber	80%
2012	American	"for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"	Robert Lefkowitz	80%
	American		Thomas R. Cech	80%
	Swiss	"for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"	Vladimir Prelog	80%
1937	British	"for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C"	Walter Norman Haworth	80%
1939	Nazi German	"for his work on sex hormones"	Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt	79%
1929	British	"for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"	Arthur Harden	79%
	Israeli		Avram Hershko	79%
1951	American	"for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"	Edwin Mattison McMillan	79%
1906	French	"in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him"	Henri Moissan	79%
1988	West German	"for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"	Johann Deisenhofer	79%
	British		John Cowdery Kendrew	79%
	Croatian, Swiss	"for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"	Leopold Ruzicka	79%
	American	"for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"	Paul D. Boyer	79%
1925	Austrian, Hungarian	"for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry"	Richard Adolf Zsigmondy	79%
	American		Richard E. Smalley	79%
1915	German	"for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll"	Richard Martin Willstatter	79%
	American	"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes", "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"	Roderick MacKinnon	79%
1926	Swedish	"for his work on disperse systems"	The (Theodor) Svedberg	79%
	American		Wendell Meredith Stanley	79%
1928	German	"for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"	Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus	78%
	American		Alan J. Heeger	78%
2000	New Zealander, American	"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"	Alan MacDiarmid	78%
1948	Swedish	"for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins"	Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius	78%
1945	Finnish	"for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen	78%
1969	British	"for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"	Derek H.R. Barton	78%
1964	British	"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	78%
	German		Friedrich Bergius	78%
1923	Austrian	"for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances"	Fritz Pregl	78%
	American		F. Sherwood Rowland	78%
	American		Glenn Theodore Seaborg	78%
1927	German	"for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances"	Heinrich Otto Wieland	78%
	American		Jerome Karle	78%
	Mexican		Mario J. Molina	78%
	Russian/Soviet		Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov	78%
	Norwegian		Odd Hassel	78%
	Swiss	"for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"	Paul Karrer	78%
	British		Richard Laurence Millington Synge	78%
1956	British	"for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"	Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood	78%
	British		Sir Harold W. Kroto	78%
	American	"for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule"	Stanford Moore	78%
	American		Thomas A. Steitz	78%
	American		William H. Stein	78%
	American		William S. Knowles	78%
	American		Charles J. Pedersen	77%
1959	Czechoslovakian	"for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"	Jaroslav Heyrovsky	77%
1947	British	"for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"	Sir Robert Robinson	77%
1955	American	"for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"	Vincent du Vigneaud	77%
1949	American	"for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"	William Giauque	77%
1986	American	"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"	Dudley R. Herschbach	76%
	British		Frederick Sanger	76%
1958	British	"for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin"	Frederick Sanger	76%
	British		John E. Walker	76%
1995	Dutch	"for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"	Paul J. Crutzen	76%
2011	Israeli	"for the discovery of quasicrystals"	Dan Schechtman	75%
2006	American	"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"	Roger D. Kornberg	75%
1977	Belgian	"for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures"	Ilya Prigogine	74%
1965	American	"for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"	Robert Burns Woodward	74%
	Canadian, Hungarian		John C. Polanyi	73%
1993	American	"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry", "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"	Kary B. Mullis	73%
1984	American	"for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix"	Robert Bruce Merrifield	73%
1966	American	"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"	Robert S. Mulliken	73%
1946	American	"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"	James Batcheller Sumner	72%
	American		Richard R. Schrock	72%
1953	West German	"for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"	Hermann Staudinger	71%
1971	Canadian, West German	"for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"	Gerhard Herzberg	69%
1962	British	"for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"	Max Ferdinand Perutz	68%