Name The Nobel Prize Winner [Chemistry]

Type in the last name of the relevant Nobel Prize winner per the descriptions/hints. For practicality, not all 194 laureates are included in this quiz. Let's give these chemists some appreciation, and have fun while we're at it :)

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(1901) The first person to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	Jacobus H. van 't Hoff
(1904) Discovered neon, argon, krypton and xenon and sorted them into the noble gases group.	Sir William Ramsay
(1906) Isolating fluorine from its compounds AND introducing the electric furnace to science.	Henri Moissan
(1907) Discovery of enzymes via work on yeast and fermentation.	Edward Buchner
(1908) Discovery of alpha and beta radiation, or the disintegration of elements.	Ernest Rutherford
(1909) Discovery of catalysts.	Wilhelm Ostwald
(1911) Discovery of radium and polonium; the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	Marie Curie
(1914) For significant work in determining the atomic weights of elements. First American to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	Theodore William Richards
(1915) Significant research on chlorophyll, including its relationship with hemoglobin in red blood cells.	Richard Willstätter
(1918) Synthesis of ammonia, which can be used to manufacture fertilizers. This process is famously named after him.	Fritz Haber
(1921) Coined the term "isotope", as well as discover that... well, isotopes exist.	Frederick Soddy
(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
(1939) Determining the composition of estrogen, estriol, and androsterone.	Adolf Butenandt
(1944) Discovery of nuclear fission after irradiating uranium into barium.	Otto Hahn
(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
(1960) Radiocarbon dating, or, the method of measuring carbon-14 content in order to date organic materials.	Willard Libby
(1966) Molecular orbitals/advancement of the Bohr atomic model.	Robert S. Mulliken
(1998) Development of the Gaussian computer program for computational quantum chemistry.	John Pople
(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
(2019) The development of lithium-ion batteries. NAME ONE OF THREE LAUREATES.	John B. Goodenough AND M. Stanley Whittingham AND Akira Yoshino