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Biological Molecules Containing Metal Ions
Chlorophyll a(a magnesium complex)
Vitamin B-12(a cobalt complex)
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Nobel Prizes awarded in areas of chemistry (1991-1995)
1991
Richard Robert Ernst (Switzerland, *1933-08-14)
Development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy (NMR)
1992
Rudolph A. Marcus (USA, *1923)
Theories of electron transfer
1993
Kary Banks Mullis (USA, *1944)
Invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Michael Smith (Canada, *1932)
Development of site specific mutagenesis
1994
George A. Olah (USA, *1927)
Carbocations
1995
Paul Crutzen (Netherlands, *1933)
Mario Molina (Mexico, *1943)
Frank Sherwood Rowland (USA, *1927)
for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the
formation and decomposition of ozone
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Nobel Prizes awarded in areas of chemistry (1996-2000)
1996
Robert F. Curl, Jr. (USA, *1933)
Sir Harold W. Kroto (United Kingdom, *1939)
Richard E. Smalley (USA, *1943)
for their discovery of fullerenes
1997
Paul D. Boyer (USA, *1918)
John E. Walker (United Kingdom, *1941)
for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine
triphosphate (ATP)
Jens C. Skou (Denmark, *1918)
for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+-ATPase
1998
Walter Kohn (USA, *1923)
John A. Pople (United Kingdom/USA, 1925 - 2004)
to Walter Kohn for his development of the density-functional theory and to John Pople for his
development of computational methods in quantum chemistry (GAUSSIAN computer programs)
1999
Ahmed H. Zewail (USA, Egypt, *1946)
for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
2000
Alan J. Heeger (USA, *1936)
Alan G. MacDiarmid (USA, *1927)
Hideki Shirakawa (Japan, *1936)
for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
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2009
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
2008
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien "for the
discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
2007
Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid
surfaces"
2006
Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular basis of
eukaryotic transcription"
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Nobel Prizes awarded in areas of chemistry (2000-2005)2001
William S. Knowles (USA, *1917)
Ryoji Noyori (Japan, *1938)
for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions
K. Barry Sharpless (USA, *1941)
for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
2002
John B. Fenn (USA, *1917)
Koichi Tanaka (Japan, *1959)
for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological
macromolecules
Kurt Wthrich (Switzerland, *1938)
for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional
structure of biological macromolecules in solution
2003
Peter Agre (USA, *1949)
for the discovery of water channels in cell membranes
Roderick MacKinnon (USA)
for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels in cell membranes
2004
Aaron Ciechanover (Israel, *1947)
Avram Hershko (Israel, *1937)
Irwin Rose (USA, *1926)
for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
2005
Yves Chauvin (France),
Robert H. Grubbs (USA)
Richard R. Schrock (USA)
for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
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Overview of the Development of Inorganic
Chemistry in the 20th century
Manhattan Project: fission bomb
Ziegler-Natta catalystfor polymerization of ethylene
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Fullerene Compounds: The great discovery in the 90s
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