Statistics for Name The Nobel Prize Winner [Chemistry]

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HintChemist% Correct
(1911) Discovery of radium and polonium; the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Marie Curie
100%
(1901) The first person to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Jacobus H. van 't Hoff
60%
(1939) Determining the composition of estrogen, estriol, and androsterone.Adolf Butenandt
40%
(1907) Discovery of enzymes via work on yeast and fermentation.Edward Buchner
40%
(1908) Discovery of alpha and beta radiation, or the disintegration of elements.Ernest Rutherford
40%
(1921) Coined the term "isotope", as well as discover that... well, isotopes exist.Frederick Soddy
40%
(1918) Synthesis of ammonia, which can be used to manufacture fertilizers. This process is famously named after him.Fritz Haber
40%
(1906) Isolating fluorine from its compounds AND introducing the electric furnace to science.Henri Moissan
40%
(1935) The very first creation of artificial radioactive atoms (aluminum to a radioactive isotope of phosphorus). NAME EITHER LAUREATE.Irène Joliot-Curie AND Frédéric Joliot
40%
(1944) Discovery of nuclear fission after irradiating uranium into barium.Otto Hahn
40%
(1915) Significant research on chlorophyll, including its relationship with hemoglobin in red blood cells.Richard Willstätter
40%
(1904) Discovered neon, argon, krypton and xenon and sorted them into the noble gases group.Sir William Ramsay
40%
(1914) For significant work in determining the atomic weights of elements. First American to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Theodore William Richards
40%
(1909) Discovery of catalysts.Wilhelm Ostwald
40%
(1960) Radiocarbon dating, or, the method of measuring carbon-14 content in order to date organic materials.Willard Libby
40%
(1949) Experimental evidence for the third law of thermodynamics ("the entropy in a perfect crystal is zero when the absolute temperature is zero").William Francis Giauque
40%
(2019) The development of lithium-ion batteries. NAME ONE OF THREE LAUREATES.John B. Goodenough AND M. Stanley Whittingham AND Akira Yoshino
20%
(1998) Development of the Gaussian computer program for computational quantum chemistry.John Pople
20%
(1966) Molecular orbitals/advancement of the Bohr atomic model.Robert S. Mulliken
20%
(1998) Joint creator of the density-functional theory, which looked at the average density of electrons in a space as opposed to factoring in the movement of each individual electron.Walter Kohn
20%

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