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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Every October, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry awards the field’s biggest prize. C&EN asks experts for predictions on who will win, covers the annual prize announcement, and examines Nobel trends over the years.
Nobel winners
Three quantum dot researchers awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov share prize for research that added color to nanotechnology
October 4, 2023
Podcast: Bioorthogonal, click chemistry clinch the Nobel Prize
Stereo Chemistry breaks down the science of prize winners Bertozzi, Sharpless and Meldal
October 6, 2022
Click and bioorthogonal chemistry win 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless receive prize for their work on reactions that quickly link up molecules and their application in living cells
October 5, 2022
Podcast: Molecule-building tool wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Stereo Chemistry explores the science behind the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 6, 2021
Pioneers of asymmetric organocatalysis win 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Benjamin List and David W. C. MacMillan take home the prize for revolutionizing chiral organic synthesis with small-molecule catalysts
October 6, 2021
Podcast: Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page
The recent chemistry-prize winners tell Stereo Chemistry about what comes after that momentous call from Stockholm
February 16, 2021
CRISPR genome editing gets 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna share award
October 9, 2020
Video: How CRISPR-Cas9 works
The Nobel-winning gene-editing technique enables scientists to precisely alter an organism’s DNA
October 9, 2020
Lithium-ion battery pioneers nab 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino will share the prize for developing the chemistry of the rechargeable batteries
October 9, 2019
Video: Lithium-ion batteries are (finally) Goodenough
Watch why John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino are ‘very deserving’ of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 9, 2019
Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, and Gregory P. Winter share 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Trio recognized for harnessing evolution to identify new enzymes and binding proteins
October 3, 2018
Cryo-electron microscopy innovators win 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson honored for developing the technique, which enables unprecedented views of important biomolecules
October 4, 2017
Molecular machines garner 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Three chemists recognized for their work on mechanically interlocked molecules
October 5, 2016
Nobel predictions
Who will win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Chemists make their predictions
C&EN’s annual #ChemNobel prediction webinar votes for mRNA vaccines to win in 2023
Behind the Nobel
More and more biochemists and life scientists are winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Researchers use bibliographic analysis to spot the prize’s bio trend and suggest ways to refocus the prize back to chemistry; but some chemists think the trend just represents the diversity of chemical sciences
December 6, 2019
These women scientists should have won the Nobel
Chemists argue that the following 13 women deserved a prize
September 11, 2017
Nobel journeys in chemistry: Mapping the lives of laureates
Welcome to C&EN’s data visualization tracking pivotal moments in the lives of chemistry’s Nobel Laureates
September 19, 2016