Collection of interviews with Nobel Laureates 🎤, Nobel Prize quizzes 🧠, and all the fascinating details surrounding the prestigious award, including a list of Chemistry Nobel Prizes 🏆

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🎤 Interviews with Nobel Prize Winners

Many Nobel Laureates describe serendipity and persistence as keys to discovery

	Avram Hershko: Curiosity and Persistence November 2013 Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko discusses how curiosity, choosing the right research, and persistence work as a general principle for success
	Dan Shechtman: Succeeding in Science October 2013 Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman talks about the reason why quasicrystals weren’t discovered earlier and his unerring belief in his experiments
	Ei-ichi Negishi on his Research and Life October 2013 Nobel Laureate Ei-ichi Negishi shares some secrets of his life and research when visiting Wiley-VCH office
	Video: How Discoveries Are Made May 2016 Professor K. Barry Sharpless, 2001 Chemistry Nobel Laureate and Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA, explains how scientific discoveries are made
	Video: Why Diversity Is Important April 2018 Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, explains his connection to Germany and why diversity is important for science
	What Makes Metal–Organic Frameworks Beautiful? (video) November 2019 Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan, explains his research
	Design by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life August 2020 Meeting the 2018 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold and learning about her research field
	Supporting a Bigger Us September 2020 Sir Fraser Stoddart, USA, on the importance of internationality in science as well as formative moments in his life
	I Have Always Been Very Interested in the Beauty of Molecules (video) September 2021 Omar M. Yaghi about his research, the discovery of MOFs, supporting young academics, and our responsibility as scientists
	Chemical Solution to the CO2 Problem January 2025 Omar Yaghi discusses COF-999’s CO₂-adsorbing ability, its climate change potential, his research in reticular chemistry, and chemistry’s role in addressing societal challenges like water scarcity

	Nobel Prize Quiz 2022 2022 Learn facts about the Nobel Prize and test your knowledge with this quiz. Have fun!
	The Road to the Nobel Prize 2021 Who nominates the Nobel Prize candidates and how is the winner selected?
	Secrets of Nobel Laureates 2018 How well do you know Nobel Laureates?
	Chemistry Nobel Prize Quiz 2019 How much do you know about the Nobel Prize Laureates?
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Trivia 2018 Test your knowledge of the highest honor in chemistry
	Nobel Prize Quiz 2010 Test your knowledge of the Nobel Prizes with our quiz

📚 General

	Video: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded Women October 2018 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to women four times
	Nobel Prize Trends October 2012 Which country produced the most Nobel Laureates? How old is a typical Laureate? And is it taking longer for discoveries to be recognized?
	Video: Composition of the Nobel Prize Medals October 5, 2021 Every Nobel Prize winner receives a medal at the award ceremony. What is it made of?

🏆 List of Chemistry Nobel Prizes

Laureates: Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi
Awarded for: The development of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materials with vast applications in gas storage, catalysis, and environmental science.

Did You Know? One gram of a MOF could have an internal surface area roughly equal to two American football fields

	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 David Baker, USA, is honored for his work in computational protein design, the other half is shared by Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, both UK, for their contributions to protein structure prediction
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov were honored for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 The prize was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 The prize was awarded to Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (USA) for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 The prize was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier (Germany) and Jennifer A. Doudna (USA) for the development of a method for genome editing
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 The prize was awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 The prize was awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, and Sir Gregory P. Winter for their work on directed evolution
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 The prize was awarded to J. Dubochet, Switzerland, J. Frank, USA, and R. Henderson, UK, for imaging molecules live
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 J.-P. Sauvage, Sir J. F. Stoddart, and B. L. Feringa awarded for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 Tomas Lindahl, UK, Paul Modrich, USA, and Aziz Sancar, USA, have been awarded “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner have been awarded for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel, all USA, were awarded