Nobel Prize Chemistry 2020: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the winner of Nobel Prize Chemistry today on Wednesday. It should be noted that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had made the announcement and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A Doudna to share the award for creating a tool for rewriting the code of life.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been given to 183 individuals on 111 occasions except for the World War time 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941, and 1942, for not meeting the criteria in the foundation’s statutes.
The 183 Nobel Prize winners for Chemistry include 71 scientists from the United States of America (USA), followed by 33 from Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) each. In 2019, Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
Till now only five women have been awarded the Nobel Prize including Marie Curie, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Ada Yonath, and Frances H. Arnold. Marie Curie, the only woman to have received two Nobel Prizes, received the recognition for physics and chemistry.
Here are some interesting facts about the Nobel Prize for Chemistry:
- 63 Chemistry Prizes have been given to one Laureate only.
- 23 Chemistry Prizes have been shared by two Laureates.
- 25 Chemistry Prizes have been shared between three Laureates
- As Frederick Sanger has been awarded twice, there are 183 individuals who have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 1901
- the youngest Nobel Laureate in Chemistry is Frederic Joliot, who was 35 years old in 1935 with his wife Irene Joliot-Curie, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.
- The oldest Nobel Laureate in Chemistry to date is John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old in 2019.
Here are multiple Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Marie Curie:
Physics 1903
Chemistry 1911
Linus Pauling:
Chemistry 1954
Peace 1962
Frederick Sanger:
Chemistry 1958
Chemistry 1980
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