Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Awarded for	Outstanding contributions in chemistry
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by	Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Reward(s)	11 million SEK (2024)
First awarded	1901
Last awarded	2024
Currently held by	David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper (2024)
Most awards	Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless (2)
Website	nobelprize.org/chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. This award is administered by the Nobel Foundation, and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on proposal of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry which consists of five members elected by the Academy. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, of the Netherlands, "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". From 1901 to 2024, the award has been bestowed on a total of 195 individuals.^[2] The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction and to David Baker for Computational Protein Design. As of 2022^[update] only eight women had won the prize: Marie Curie (1911), her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie(1935), Dorothy Hodgkin (1964), Ada Yonath (2009), Frances Arnold (2018), Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna (2020), and Carolyn R. Bertozzi (2022).^[3]

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