List of U.K. Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
Award winner | Award | Reason for the award |
Michael Stanley Whittingham (born 1941) |
2019 | Together with the American John B. Goodenough and the Japanese Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries. |
Greory (Greg) Winter (born 19051) |
2018 | He received the award together with the US-American Frances Arnold and the US-American George Smith for their development of chemical products based on natural substances |
Richard Henderson (born 1945) |
2017 | Together with the Swiss Jacques Dubochet and the American Joachim Frank Für for the development of cryo-electron microscopy |
James Fraser Stoddart (born 1942 in Scotland) |
2016 | Together with the Dutchman Bernard Lucas Feringa and the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage For their design and synthesis of molecular machines |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) |
2009 | Together with the US researcher Thomas A. Seitz: For the studies on the structure and function of the ribosome |
John Anthony Pople (1925-2004) |
1998 | For the development of methods with which the properties of molecules and their interaction in chemical processes can be theoretically researched |
John E. Walker (born 1941) |
1997 | Together with the US researcher Paul D. Boyer: For clarifying the synthesis of the high-energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) |
Harold Kroto (born 1939) |
1996 | Together with US researchers Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley: For the discovery of fullerenes, also called buckyballs, a new form of carbon with a spherical molecule |
Aaron Klug (born 1926) |
1982 | For the development of crystallographic methods for deciphering biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes |
Frederick Sanger (born 1918) |
1980 | Together with the US researcher Walter Gilbert: For their contributions concerning the determination of basic sequences in nucleic acids |
Peter D. Mitchell (1920-1992) |
1978 | For his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the development of chemiosmotic theory |
John W. Cornforth Australian-British (born 1917) |
1975 | For his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme catalysis reactions |
Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996) |
1973 | Together with the German researcher Ernst Otto Fischer: For their pioneering work independently of one another on the chemistry of the organometallic so-called sandwich compounds |
Derek HR Barton (1918-1998) |
1969 | Together with the Norwegian Odd Hassel: For her work on the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry |
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978) |
1967 | Together with the German Manfred Eigen and the British George Porter: For their investigations into extremely fast chemical reactions that are triggered by the destruction of the equilibrium by very short energy impulses |
George Porter (1920-2002 |
1967 | Together with the German Manfred Eigen and the British Ronald George Wreyford Norrish: For their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions that are triggered by the destruction of the equilibrium with very short energy pulses |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) |
1964 | For their structure determination of biologically important substances with X-rays |
Max Ferdinand Perutz (1914-2002) |
1962 | Together with the British John Cowdery Kendrew: For their studies on the structure of globulin proteins |
John Cowdery Kendrew (1917-1997 |
1962 | Together with the British Max Ferdinand Perutz: For their studies on the structures of globulin proteins |
Frederick Sanger (born 1918) |
1958 | For his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin |
Alexander Robertus Todd (1907-1997) |
1957 | For his work on nucleotides and co-enzyme nucleotides |
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967) |
1956 | Together with the Soviet researcher Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Semjonow: For her research on the mechanisms of chemical reactions |
Archer JP Martin (1910-2002) |
1952 | Together with Richard LM Synge from Britain: For their invention of distribution chromatography |
Richard LM Synge (1914-1994) |
1952 | Together with the Englishman Archer JP Martin: For their invention of distribution chromatography |
Robert Robinson (1886-1975) |
1947 | For his research on biologically important plant products, especially alkaloids |
Walter Norman Haworth (1883-1950) |
1937 | For his research on carbohydrates and vitamin C. |
Arthur Harden (1865-1940) |
1929 | Together with the Swede Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin: For their research on sugar fermentation and the role of enzymes in this process |
Francis William Aston (1877-1945) |
1922 | For his discovery of a large number of isotopes in several non-radioactive elements with the help of his mass spectrograph and for his discovery of the so-called law of integers |
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) |
Awarded in 1921 Received in 1922 |
For his contributions to the knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances and his investigations into the occurrence and nature of isotopes |
Ernest Rutherford British-New Zealand nuclear physicist (1871-1937) |
1908 | For his investigations into the decay of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances |
Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) |
1904 | In recognition of the merit he has earned through the discovery of the indifferent gaseous basic substances – the noble gases – in the air and the determination of their place in the periodic system |