Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

2021

Make your predictions for the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and find out what others think

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

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

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

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?

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