Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 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 o
In 1901, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911) received the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Marie Curie
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Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for t
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
…to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks". As of 2022, 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…
Marie Skłodowska Curie, c. 1920
Curie's birthplace at 16 Freta Street in New Town, Warsaw
Władysław Skłodowski and daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, and Helena, 1890
Maria (left) and sister Bronisława, c. 1886