Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf Nobel Prizes in Chemistry © Dr. John Andraos, 2002 - 2015 Department of Chemistry, York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ONTARIO M3J 1P3, CANADA For suggestions, corrections, additional information, and comments please send e-mails to c1000@careerchem.com http://www.chem.yorku.ca/NAMED/ NOBEL PRIZE CHEMISTRY YEARNAMES OF SCIENTISTS NATIONALITY TYPE OF CHEMISTRY 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Dutch German Swedish British German French German British Latvian German Polish-French French French German American German N/A N/A German N/A physical organic physical physical organic inorganic organic/bioorganic nuclear physical organic nuclear organic organic inorganic physical organic N/A N/A physical/industrial N/A Jacobus van't Hoff Emil Fischer Svante Arrhenius Sir William Ramsay Adolf von Baeyer Henri Moissan Eduard Buchner Lord Ernest Rutherford Wilhelm Ostwald Otto Wallach Marie Curie Victor Grignard Paul Sabatier Alfred Werner Theodore Williams Richards Richard Martin Willstatter no prize awarded no prize awarded Fritz Haber no prize awarded 1 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1929 1930 1931 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1935 1936 1937 1937 1938 1939 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 Walther Hermann Nernst Frederick Soddy Francis William Aston Fritz Pregl no prize awarded Richard Zsigmondy Theodor Svedberg Heinrich Wieland Adolf Windaus Hans von Euler-Chelpin Arthur Harden Hans Fischer Friedrich Bergius Carl Bosch Irving Langmuir no prize awarded Harold Urey Frederic Joliot Irene Joliot-Curie Peter Debye Sir Walter Haworth Paul Karrer Richard Kuhn Adolf Butenandt Leopold Ruzicka no prize awarded no prize awarded no prize awarded George de Hevesy Otto Hahn Artturi Virtanen James Sumner German British British Slovenian N/A Austrian Swedish German German German British German German German American N/A American French French Dutch British Russian Austrian German Croatian N/A N/A N/A Hungarian German Finnish American physical nuclear analytical analytical N/A physical physical organic organic bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic physical physical physical N/A nuclear nuclear nuclear physical organic organic organic organic organic N/A N/A N/A nuclear nuclear agrichemistry bioorganic 2 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1946 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1950 1951 1951 1952 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1962 1963 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1967 1967 1968 John Northrup American Wendell Stanley American Sir Robert Robinson British Arne Tiselius Swedish William Francis Giauque Canadian-American Kurt Alder German Otto Paul Hermann Diels German Edwin McMillan American Glenn T. Seaborg American Archer John Porter Martin British Richard Laurence Millington SyngeBritish Hermann Staudinger German Linus Carl Pauling American Vincent Du Vigneaud American Sir Cyril Hinshelwood British Nikolay Nikolayevich Semenov Russian Alexander Robertus Todd Scottish Frederick Sanger British Jaroslav Heyrovksy Czech Willard Libby American Melvin Calvin American John Kendrew British Max Perutz Austrian-British Giulio Natta Italian Karl Ziegler German Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin British Robert Woodward American Robert Mulliken American Ronald Wreyford Norrish British Sir George Porter British Manfred Eigen German Lars Onsager Norwegian bioorganic bioorganic organic bioorganic physical organic organic nuclear nuclear analytical analytical organic organic organic physical physical bioorganic bioorganic analytical nuclear bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic polymer polymer physical-bioorganic organic physical physical-organic physical-organic physical physical 3 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1969 1969 1970 1971 1972 1972 1972 1973 1973 1974 1975 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1979 1980 1980 1980 1981 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1985 1986 1986 1986 1987 1987 Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton Odd Hassel Luis Leloir Gerhard Herzberg Christian Anfinsen Stanford Moore William Stein Ernst Otto Fischer Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Paul Flory Sir John Cornforth Vladimir Prelog William N. Lipscomb, Jr. Ilya Prigogine Peter Mitchell Herbert Charles Brown Georg Wittig Paul Berg Walter Gilbert Frederick Sanger Kenichi Fukui Roald Hoffmann Aaron Klug Henry Taube Robert Bruce Merrifield Herbert Aaron Hauptman Jerome Karle Dudley R. Herschbach Yuan Tseh Lee John Charles Polanyi Donald James Cram Jean-Marie Lehn British Norwegian French German-Canadian Norwegian American American German British American Australian Croatian American Russian-French British American German American American British Japanese Polish-American South African-British Canadian-American American American American American Taiwanese-American British-Canadian American French organic organic bioorganic physical bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic inorganic inorganic polymer organic organic organic physical bioorganic organic organic bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic theoretical organic bioorganic inorganic bioorganic mathematical biology physical physical physical physical organic organic 4 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1987 1988 1988 1988 1989 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1993 1994 1995 1995 1995 1996 1996 1996 1997 1997 1997 1998 1998 1999 2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2002 2002 Charles J. Pedersen Hartmut Michel Johann Deisenhofer Robert Huber Sidney Altman Thomas R. Cech Elias James Corey Richard R. Ernst Rudolph A. Marcus Kary B. Mullis Michael Smith George A. Olah Paul Crutzen Mario Molina F. Sherwood Rowland Robert F. Curl, Jr. Sir Harold W. Kroto Richard E. Smalley Paul D. Boyer John E. Walker Jens C. Skou Walter Kohn John A. Pople Ahmed Zewail Alan J. Heeger Alan G. MacDiarmid Hideki Shirakawa William S. Knowles Karl Barry Sharpless Ryoji Noyori John Fenn Koichi Tanaka Korean-American German German German Canadian-American American American Swiss Canadian-American American British-Canadian Hungarian-American Dutch Mexican-American American American British American American British Danish Austrian-American British-American Egyptian-American American New Zealander-American Japanese American American Japanese American Japanese organic bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic organic physical physical bioorganic bioorganic organic atmospheric atmospheric atmospheric organic organic organic bioorganic bioorganic bioorganic theoretical theoretical physical polymer polymer polymer organic organic organic analytical (MS of proteins) analytical (MS of proteins) 5 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2012 Kurt Wuethrich Peter C. Agre Roderick MacKinnon Aaron J. Ciechanover Avram Hershko Irwin A. Rose Yves Chauvin Robert H. Grubbs Richard R. Schrock Roger D. Kornberg Gerhard Ertl Roger Y. Tsien Martin Chalfie Osamu Shimomura Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Thomas A. Steitz Ada E. Yonath Richard F. Heck Ei-ichi Negishi Akira Suzuki Dan Shechtman Robert J. Lefkowitz Brian K. Kobilka Swiss American American Israeli Israeli American French American American American German American American Japanese American American Israeli American Japanese-American Japanese Israeli American American 2013 Martin Karplus Austrian-American 2013 Michael Levitt American-British-Israeli 2013 2014 2014 2014 Israeli-American American Romanian-German American Ariel Warshel Eric Betzig Stefan W. Hell William E. Moerner analytical (NMR of proteins) water channels in cell membranes ion channels in cell membranes ubiquitin mediated protein degradation ubiquitin mediated protein degradation ubiquitin mediated protein degradation metathesis reaction metathesis reaction metathesis reaction RNA transcription in eukaryotes chemicalprocesses on solid surfaces green fluorescent protein green fluorescent protein green fluorescent protein ribosome structure ribosome structure ribosome structure cross-coupling reactions cross-coupling reactions cross-coupling reactions discovery of quasicrystals studies of G-protein–coupled receptors studies of G-protein–coupled receptors development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy 6 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 2015 Tomas Lindahl 2015 Paul Modrich 2015 Aziz Sankar Swedish American Turkish-American NUMBER OF PRIZES AWARDED BY TYPE OF CHEMISTRY AREA OF CHEMISTRY NUMBER OF PRIZES agrichemistry 1 analytical 8 atmospheric 3 bioorganic 44 industrial 1 inorganic 5 nuclear 11 organic 50 physical 34 physical-organic 2 polymer 6 theoretical 4 mechanistic studies of DNA repair mechanistic studies of DNA repair mechanistic studies of DNA repair 7 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 8 NOBEL PRIZES AWARDED BY TYPE OF CHEMISTRY organic bioorganic AREA OF CHEMISTRY physical nuclear analytical polymer inorganic theoretical atmospheric physical-organic industrial agrichemistry 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 NUMBER OF PRIZES AWARDED Ph.D. 2003 1950 1989 1972 UNIVERSITY Agre, Peter C. Alder, Kurt Altman, Sidney SUPERVISOR PhD Pedro Cuatrecasas 1974 Otto Diels 1926 Leonard S. Lerman 1967 Albert B. Hastings (Harvard), Hugo Anfinsen, Christian B. Theorell (Medical Nobel Inst.) 1943 Johns Hopkins (MD) Kiel Colorado DATES 1949 1902 - 1958 1939 - Harvard Medical School 1916 - 1995 Age at Prize 54 48 50 56 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1903 1922 1905 1969 1980 1931 2014 1931 1997 1979 1907 1939 1961 1989 2008 2005 2004 1990 1975 1987 1995 1911 1996 1936 Arrhenius, Svante Erik Edlund, Sven O. Pettersson Percy F. Frankland, John H. Aston, Francis William Poynting Baeyer, Adolf von Robert Bunsen, F. Kekule Barton, Sir Derek Harold Richard Ewart R.H. Jones, Ian Heilbron Herman Kalckar (Copenhagen); Arthur Kornberg (Washington at Berg, Paul St. Louis) Bergius, Friedrich Arthur Hanzsch Betzig, Eric Michael S. Isaacson Bosch, Carl Johannes Wislicenus Boyer, Paul D. Paul Phillips Brown, Herbert Charles Hermann I. Schlesinger Buchner, Eduard Adolf Baeyer Butenandt, Adolf Adolf Windaus Calvin, Melvin George A. Glockler Cech, Thomas R. John E. Hearst Chalfie, Martin Robert L. Perlman Chauvin, Yves No supervisor Ciechanover, Aaron J. Harvey Lodish (MIT) Corey, Elias James John C. Sheehan Cornforth, Sir John Sir Robert Robinson Cram, Donald James Louis F. Fieser Crutzen, Paul Josef Bert Bolin Curie, Marie Henri Becquerel Curl, Jr., Robert Floyd Kenneth Pitzer Debye, Peter Arnold Sommerfeld 9 1884 Uppsala 18981900,19 03-8 (no Ph.D.) Birmingham 1858 Berlin 1859 - 1927 44 1877 - 1945 1835 - 1917 45 70 1942 London 1918 - 1998 51 1952 1907 1988 1898 1943 Case Western Reserve Leipzig Cornell Leipzig Wisconsin 1926 1884 - 1949 1960 1874 - 1940 1918 - 54 47 54 57 79 1938 1888 1927 1935 1975 1977 1954 Chicago Munich Goettingen Minnesota UC Berkeley Harvard Lyon (MSc) 1912 - 2004 1860 - 1917 1903 - 1995 1911 - 1997 1947 1947 1930 - 67 47 36 50 42 61 75 1981 1951 1941 1947 1968 1902 Technion (MD) MIT Oxford Harvard Stockholm Sorbonne 1947 1928 1917 1919 - 2001 1933 1867 - 1934 57 62 58 68 62 44 1957 1908 UC Berkeley Munich 1933 1884 - 1966 63 52 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1988 1950 1967 1991 2007 1929 2002 1902 1973 1930 1974 1981 1949 1980 1912 2005 1918 1944 1929 1969 1985 1937 2010 2000 2014 Deisenhofer, Johann Robert Huber Diels, Otto Paul Hermann Emil Fischer Eigen, Manfred Ernst, Richard R. Ertl, Gerhard Euler-Chelpin, Hans von Fenn, John Bennett Fischer, Emil Fischer, Ernst Otto Fischer, Hans Flory, Paul Fukui, Kenichi Giauque, William Francis Gilbert, Walter Grignard, Victor Grubbs, Robert Howard Haber, Fritz Hahn, Otto Harden, Arthur Hassel, Odd Hauptman, Herbert Aaron Haworth, Sir Walter Heck, Richard F. Heeger, Alan J. Hell, Stefan W. 1974 1899 10 TU Berlin, Max Planck Inst. Biochem. 1943 - 45 Arnold Eucken Hans Primas Heinz Gerischer Emil Fischer; Emil Warburg; Max Planck Gus Akerlof Adolf Baeyer Walter Hieber Theodore Zincke Herrick Lee Johnston Shinjiro Kodama 1951 1962 1965 Berlin Georg-August U, Goettingen ETH Munich 1876 - 1954 74 1927 1933 1936 - 40 58 71 1895 1940 1874 1952 1904 1934 1948 Berlin Yale Strasbourg TH Munich Marburg Ohio State Kyoto (eng.) 1873 - 1964 1917 - 2010 1852 - 1919 1918 - 2007 1881 - 1945 1910 - 1985 1918 - 1998 56 85 50 55 49 64 63 George Ernest Gibson Abdus Salam Louis Bouvealt, Phillipe Barbier 1922 1957 1901 UC Berkeley Cambridge Lyon 1895 - 1982 1932 1871 - 1935 54 48 41 Ronald Breslow Carl Liebermann Theodore Zincke Otto Fischer Fritz Haber 1968 1891 1901 1888 1924 Columbia Berlin-Charlottenberg Marburg Erlangen Berlin 1942 1868 - 1934 1879 - 1968 1865 - 1940 1897 - 1981 63 50 65 64 72 Jerome Karle Otto Wallach Saul Winstein Alan M. Portis Siegfried Hunklinger 1955 1910 1954 1961 1990 Maryland (mathematics) Goettingen UCLA UC Berkeley Heidelberg 1917 1883 - 1950 1931 1936 1962 - 68 54 79 64 52 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1986 2004 1971 1943 1959 1956 1964 1981 1988 1935 1935 1985 2013 1937 1962 1982 2001 2012 1998 2006 1996 1938 1932 1986 2012 Herschbach, Dudley R. Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr. Hershko, Avram G. Tomkins 1958 1969 Herzberg, Gerhard Hans Rau 1928 Hevesy, George de Georg Meyer 1908 Heyrovksy, Jaroslav Jan S. Sterba-Bohm 1918 Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Harold Brewer Hartley 1920 Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot John D. Bernal 1937 Hoffmann, Roald M. Gouterman, W.N. Lipscomb, Jr.1962 Huber, Robert Walter Hoppe, P. Karlson 1963 Joliot, Frederic Marie Curie, Paul Langevin 1920s Joliot-Curie, Irene Marie Curie 1920s Karle, Jerome Lawrence O. Brockway 1943 Karplus, Martin Linus Pauling 1953 Karrer, Paul Alfred Werner 1911 Kendrew, John William Hodge Taylor 1949 Klug, Aaron Douglas Rayner Hartree 1952 Knowles, William Standish Robert C. Elderfield 1942 Kobilka, Brian K. Kohn, Walter Kornberg, Roger David Kroto, Sir Harold Walter Kuhn, Richard Langmuir, Irving Lee, Yuan Tseh Lefkowitz, Robert J. 11 Harvard Hebrew U (MD) TU Darmstadt (eng. physics) Freiburg Charles U, Prague Oxford (MA) 1932 1937 - 54 67 1904 - 1999 1885 - 1966 1890 - 1967 1897 - 1967 67 58 69 59 Cambridge Harvard TU Munich Radium Institute Radium Institute Michigan Cal Tech Zurich Cambridge Cambridge 1910 - 1994 1937 1937 1900 - 1958 1897 - 1956 1918 - 2013 1930 1889 - 1971 1917 1926 - 54 44 51 35 38 67 83 48 45 56 1917 - 2012 84 1955 1923 - 57 75 Robert J. Lefkowitz Julian Schwinger 1948 Columbia Yale (MD) Duke (post-doc) Harvard Harden M. McConnell 1972 Stanford 1947 - 59 Richard Dixon Richard Willstatter Walther Nernst Bruce Mahan Jesse Roth (NIH) 1964 1922 1906 1965 1966 Sheffield Munich Goettingen UC Berkeley Columbia (MD) 1939 1900 - 1967 1881 - 1957 1936 1943 - 57 38 51 50 69 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1987 Lehn, Jean-Marie 1970 2013 1960 Leloir, Luis Levitt, Michael Libby, Willard 2015 Lindahl, Tomas Lipscomb, Jr., William N. 1976 2000 2003 1992 1952 1951 1984 1988 1978 2015 2014 1906 1995 1972 1966 1993 1963 2010 1920 MacDiarmid, Alan G. MacKinnon, Roderick Marcus, Rudolph A. Martin, Archer John Porter McMillan, Edwin Merrifield, Robert Bruce Michel, Hartmut Mitchell, Peter Modrich, Paul Moerner, William E. Moissan, Henri Molina, Mario Jose Moore, Stanford Mulliken, Robert Mullis, Kary Banks Natta, Giulio Negishi, Ei-ichi Nernst, Walther Hermann 12 Guy Ourisson Carl F. Cori (Washington at St. Louis) R. Diamond Gilbert N. Lewis, Wendell Latimer Jacques R. Fresco; Gerald Edelman 1963 Strasbourg 1939 - 48 1932 1971 1933 Buenos Aires (MD) Cambridge UC Berkeley Karolinksa Inst.; Princeton, Rockefeller 1906 - 1987 1947 1908 - 1980 64 66 52 1938 - 77 Linus Pauling 1946 Norris F. Hall; Harry J. Emeleus 1967 1955 Cal Tech 1919 Wisconsin(1953),Cambri dge(1955) 1927 - 2007 73 Christopher Miller (Brandeis) Carl A. Winkler 1982 1946 Tufts (MD) McGill 1956 1923 - 47 69 Sir Charles Martin Edward U. Condon 1936 1932 Cambridge Princeton 1910 - 2002 1907 - 1991 42 44 Max Dunn Dieter Oesterhelt James F. Danielli I. Robert Lehman Albert J. Sievers III Edmond Fremy George C. Pimentel Karl Paul Link William D. Harkins John Brian (Joe) Neilands 1949 1977 1951 1973 1982 1880 1972 1938 1922 1973 63 40 58 69 61 54 52 59 70 49 Giorgio R. Levi Allan R. Day; HC Brown 1924 1963 UCLA 1921 Wuerzburg 1948 Cambridge 1920 - 1992 Stanford 1946 Cornell 1953 Paris 1852 - 1907 UC Berkeley 1943 Wisconsin 1913 - 1982 Chicago 1896 - 1986 UC Berkeley 1944 Milan Poly.Inst. (chem. eng.) 1903 - 1979 Penn.; Purdue (post-doc) 1935 - Friedrich Kohlrausch 1887 Wuerzburg 56 1864 - 1941 57 60 75 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1967 1946 2001 1994 1968 1909 1954 1987 1962 1986 1998 1967 1923 1975 1977 2009 1904 1914 1947 2004 1995 1908 1939 1912 Norrish, Ronald Wreyford Northrup, John Noyori, Ryoji Olah, George A. Onsager, Lars Ostwald, Wilhelm Pauling, Linus Carl Pedersen, Charles J. Perutz, Max Polanyi, John Charles 13 Sir Eric Keightley Rideal John M. Nelson Hitosi Nozaki Geza Zemplen Peter Debye Carl Schmidt, Johann Lemberg Roscoe G. Dickinson James F. Norris John Desmond Bernal 1924 1915 1967 1949 1928 1877 1925 1927 1940 Cambridge Columbia Kyoto Tech.U. Budapest Norges TH Dorpat Cal Tech MIT (M.Sc.) Cambridge 1897 - 1978 1891 - 1987 1938 1927 1903 - 1976 1853 - 1932 1901 - 1994 1904 - 1989 1914 - 2002 70 55 63 67 65 56 53 83 48 Ernest Warhurst 1952 1929 - 57 1951 1948 Manchester Cambridge (mathematics) Cambridge (no Ph.D.) 1925 - 2004 1920 - 2002 73 47 1894 1929 1941 Graz (MD) Prague U Libre de Bruxelles 1869 - 1930 1906 - 1998 1917 - 2003 54 69 60 1976 1873 Ohio Tubingen 1952 1852 - 1916 57 52 1888 1909 1952 Harvard Manchester Chicago 1868 - 1928 1885 - 1975 1926 - 2015 46 62 78 1952 Chicago 1927 - 2010 68 1897 1910 1880 Cambridge TU Karlsruhe College de France 1871 - 1937 1887 - 1967 1854 - 1941 37 52 58 Pople, John Anthony Sir John Lennard-Jones Porter, Sir George Ronald G.W. Norrish Alexander Rollett, Z. Skraup, W. Ostwald (Leipzig), E. Fischer Pregl, Fritz (Berlin) Prelog, Vladimir Emil Votocek Prigogine, Ilya Theophile de Donder Ramankrishnan, Venkatraman Tomayasu Tanaka Ramsay, Sir William Rudolf Fittig Richards, Theodore Williams Josiah Cooke Robinson, Sir Robert William H. Perkin, Jr. Rose, Irwin A. Bernard S. Schweigert Rowland, Frank Sherwood Willard F. Libby Rutherford, Lord Ernest Sir J.J. Thomson Ruzicka, Leopold Hermann Staudinger Sabatier, Paul Marcellin Berthelot Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1958 1980 2015 2005 1951 1956 2001 2011 2008 2000 1997 1996 1993 1921 1946 1953 1972 2009 1946 2010 1926 1952 2002 1983 1948 Sanger, Frederick Sanger, Frederick Sankar, Aziz Schrock, Richard Royce Seaborg, Glenn T. Semenov, Nikolay Nikolayevich Sharpless, Karl Barry Shechtman, Dan Shimomura, Osamu 14 Albert Neuberger Albert Neuberger Claud Stanley Rupert 1943 1943 1977 Cambridge Cambridge Texas (Dallas) 1918 - 2013 1918 - 2013 1946 - 40 62 69 John A. Osborn Gilbert N. Lewis, E.O. Lawrence 1972 1937 1945 1912 - 1999 60 39 80 Abram Fedorovich Ioffe 1917 Harvard UC Berkeley Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Eugene E. van Tamelen David G. Brandon Yoshimasa Hirata 1968 1972 1960 Shirakawa, Hideki Alan J. Heeger (Pennsylvania) Skou, Jens Christian Soren L. Orskov Smalley, Richard Errett Elliot R. Bernstein Smith, Michael Harold B. Henbest Soddy, Frederick Ernest Rutherford (post-doc) Stanley, Wendell Roger Adams Staudinger, Hermann Daniel Vorlaender Stein, William E.G. Miller Steitz, Thomas Arthur William N. Lipscomb Sumner, James Otto Folin Suzuki, Akira Takeshi Matsumoto Svedberg, Theodor no supervisor Synge, Richard Laurence Millington Norman W. Pirie Tanaka, Koichi No supervisor Taube, Henry William C. Bray Tiselius, Arne Theodor Svedberg 1896 - 1986 1941 1941 1928 - 60 70 80 1966 1954 Stanford Technion Nagoya Tokyo Institute of Technology Aarhus (Dr. MD) 1936 1918 - 64 79 1973 1956 1898 1929 1903 1937 Princeton Manchester Oxford (BA) Illinois Halle Columbia 1943 - 2005 1932 - 2000 1877 - 1956 1904 - 1971 1881 - 1965 1911 - 1980 53 61 44 42 72 61 1966 1914 1959 1907 Harvard Harvard Medical School Hokkaido Uppsala 1940 1887 - 1955 1930 1884 - 1971 69 59 80 42 1941 1983 1940 1930 Cambridge Tohoku (B.Eng.) UC Berkeley Uppsala 1914 - 1994 1959 1915 - 2005 1902 - 1971 38 43 68 46 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 1957 2008 1934 1901 1955 1945 1997 1910 2013 1913 1927 1973 1915 1928 1979 1965 2002 2009 1999 1963 1925 Todd, Lord Alexander Robertus Tsien, Roger Y. Urey, Harold van't Hoff, Jacobus Vigneaud, Vincent Du Virtanen, Artturi Walker, John E. Wallach, Otto Warshel, Ariel Werner, Alfred Wieland, Heinrich Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey Willstatter, Richard Martin Windaus, Adolf Wittig, Georg Woodward, Robert Burns Wuethrich, Kurt Yonath, Ada E. Zewail, Ahmed Ziegler, Karl Zsigmondy, Richard Walther Borsche Jeremy Sanders Gilbert N. Lewis Eduard Mulder John R. Murlin Ossian Aschan Sir Edward Penley Abraham Friedrich Wohler Shneior Lifson Arthur Hantzsch Johannes Thiele 1931 1977 1923 1874 1927 1919 1969 1869 1969 1890 1901 Henry Vincent Aird Briscoe 1907 - 1997 1952 1893 - 1981 1852 - 1911 1901 - 1978 1895 - 1973 1941 1847 - 1931 1940 1866 - 1919 1877 - 1957 50 56 41 49 54 50 56 63 73 47 50 1941 Frankfurt Cambridge UC Berkeley Utrecht Rochester Helsinki Oxford Goettingen Weizmann Inst. Science ETH Munich Imperial College, U London 1921 - 1996 52 Alfred Einhorn Heinrich Kiliani Karl von Auwers 1894 1899 1923 Munich Freiburg Marburg 1872 - 1942 1876 - 1959 1897 - 1987 43 52 82 Avery Ashdown; James F. Norris Silvio Arthur Fallab Wolfie Traub Robin Main Hochstrasser Karl von Auwers Wilhelm von Miller 1937 1964 1968 1974 1920 1889 MIT Basel Weizmann Institute U Pennsylvania Marburg Erlangen 1917 - 1979 1938 1939 1946 1898 - 1973 1865 - 1929 48 64 70 53 65 60 Note: Bolded names are those that are still alive at the time of this writing. TOP 5 UNIVERSITY RANKING 16 Cambridge 10 UC Berkeley 15 U.K. U.S. Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf 8 7 4 4 4 3 3 Harvard Munich Berlin Goettingen Marburg MIT Uppsala NATIONALITY DEMOGRAPHICS American American born German British British born French Canadian Canadian born Japanese Austrian Norwegian Russian Swedish Dutch Croatian Hungarian Polish Swiss Israeli Finnish Egyptian U.S. Germany Germany Germany Germany U.S. Sweden NUMBER OF PRIZES 71 52 29 26 24 8 7 4 7 5 5 3 3 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 16 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf Danish Czech Australian Italian Korean Latvian Mexican New Zealander Scottish Slovenian South African Taiwanese Turkish TOTAL 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 275 CANADIAN-BORN CHEMISTRY NOBEL LAUREATES PRIZE YEAR 1949 1983 1989 1992 NAME WILLIAM FRANCIS GIAUQUE HENRY TAUBE SIDNEY ALTMAN RUDOLPH A. MARCUS PLACE OF BIRTH b. Niagara Falls, ON b. Neudorf, SK b. Montreal, PQ b. Montreal, PQ EDUCATION Ph.D. 1922, California Ph.D. 1940, UC Berkeley Ph.D. 1967, Colorado Ph.D. 1946, McGill went went went went to UC Berkeley, USA to Cornell, Chicago, and Stanford, USA to Yale to Polytech. Brooklyn, Illinois, Cal Tech CHEMISTRY NOBEL LAUREATES: CANADIAN IMPORTS PRIZE YEAR 1971 1986 1993 NAME GERHARD HERZBERG JOHN CHARLES POLANYI MICHAEL SMITH PLACE OF BIRTH b. Hamburg, Germany b. Berlin, Germany b. Blackpool, England EDUCATION Ph.D. 1928, TU Darmstadt NRC Ph.D. 1952, Manchester TORONTO Ph.D. 1956, Manchester UBC Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf Age Range (yrs) 30 - 34 35 - 39 40 - 44 45 - 49 50 - 54 55 - 59 60 - 64 65 - 69 70 - 74 75 - 79 80 - 84 85 - 89 Number of Laureates 0 7 16 19 32 25 26 20 12 7 6 1 18 Dr. John Andraos, http://www.careerchem.com/NAMED/NobelChem.pdf Age Profile of Chemistry Nobelists at Time Prize Awarded 19 Chemistry Laureates: Road to Nobel Prize After Ph.D. 60 30 Number of Laureates Number of Laureates 35 25 20 15 10 5 0 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 34 39 44 49 54 59 64 69 74 79 84 89 Age Range (years) © Dr. John Andraos, 2002 - 2015 50 40 30 20 10 0 1 -> 10 11 -> 20 21 -> 30 31 -> 40 Years 41 -> 50 51 -> 60 61 -> 70