Chemistry Nobel Laureates

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Gerhard Ertl

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2007, "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces" (i.e. Fe and Pd catalysts)

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Roger D. Kornberg

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2006, "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription" (the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA)

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Robert Grubbs
Richard Schrock
Yves Chauvin

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2005, "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis" (involves redistribution of olefinic (alkene) bonds) (The reaction is catalyzed by metals such as nickel, tungsten, ruthenium and molybdenum)

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Aaron Ciechanover
Avram Hershko
Irwin Rose

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2004, "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

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Peter Agre
Roderick MacKinnon

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2003:
Agre: "for the discovery of water channels" (Aquaporins selectively conduct water molecules in and out, while preventing the passage of ions and other solutes)
MacKinnon:"for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"

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John B. Fenn
Koichi Tanaka

Kurt Wüthrich

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2002, "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"

"for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"

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William S. Knowles
Ryoji Noyori

K. Barry Sharpless

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2001, "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"

"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"

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Alan J. Heeger
Alan G MacDiarmid
Hideki Shirakawa

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2000, "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers"

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Ahmed H. Zewail

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1999, "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"

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Walter Kohn

John A. Pople

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1998, "for his development of the density functional theory"

"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"