Nobel Laureate Harold Kroto

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

In 1901 the very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jacobus H. van 't Hoff for his work on rates of reaction, chemical equilibrium, and osmotic pressure. In more recent years, the Chemistry Nobel Laureates have increased our understanding of chemical processes and their molecular basis, and have also contributed to many of the technological advancements we enjoy today.

2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Roger D. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for resolving the machinery that decodes the information in DNA. Read more about the 2006 Nobel Laureate here.

2005 Nobel Laureates A 'change-of-partners' dance rewarded! Two Americans and a Frenchman were rewarded for their development of the metathesis method. Read more about the 2005 Nobel Laureates here.

Why Do Plants Wither? And what makes the sap of the oak tree rise? Jacobus H. van 't Hoff, the first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, explains osmotic pressure and its importance in plant and animal life in his Nobel Lecture.

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