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Vant Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911) was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize medallion.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It awards people who have made progress in the scientific area of chemistry, those who have worked hard to learn more and have succeeded.

The Prize is given every year. It is just one of many Nobel Prizes. A famous winner of this prize was Marie Curie 1911, who discovered radium with her husband Pierre. She was the first person to win the prize twice; the first time was for physics in 1903.

List of winners

1901 – 1909

1910 – 1919

1920 – 1929

1930 – 1939

1940 – 1949

  • 1940 - 1942 No award
  • 1943 - George de Hevesy
  • 1944 - Otto Hahn
  • 1945 - Artturi Virtanen
  • 1946 - James Sumner, John Northrop, Wendell Stanley
  • 1947 - Sir Robert Robinson
  • 1948 - Arne Tiselius
  • 1949 - William F. Giauque

1950 – 1959

1960 – 1969

1970 – 1979

1980 – 1989

1990 – 1999

2000 – 2009

2010 – 2019

2020 –

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