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On the afternoon of October 6, Beijing time, the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry list was officially announced. Dr. Benjamin List (left) and Dr. David MacMillan (right) won this championship together for their outstanding contributions to the field of asymmetric organic catalysis.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry is one of the five Nobel Prize , aiming to reward scientists who have made important discoveries or inventions in the field of chemistry. Since its first award in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 113 times, with more than 180 winners. Below, we will share the Nobel Prize winners of Chemistry in the past five years and their breakthrough contributions.
Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier (left) and Professor Jennifer DouDNA (right)
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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CRISPR/Cas9Gene editing technology has become a powerful tool for scientific researchers to edit genomes in basic research, and is called "gene magic scissors". Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier and Professor Jennifer Doudna have made outstanding contributions to the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system. Today, using these technologies, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extreme precision. The arrival of , the technology, has had a revolutionary impact on life sciences, not only contributing to the development of new cancer therapies, but also potentially making the dream of curing genetic diseases come true.
Professor John Goodenough (left), Professor Stanley Whittingham (middle), Dr. Akira Yoshino (right)
2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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In the past few decades, only a handful of inventions have completely changed the whole world, and there is a place for lithium batteries. To give a simple example, if you don’t have a lithium battery, you will not be able to read this news through the device at hand. In 2019, Nobel Chemistry was awarded to Professor John Goodenough, Professor Stanley Whittingham and Dr. Akira Yoshino in recognition of their foundational contributions to on the road to the invention of lithium batteries.
Frances Professor H. Arnold (left), George P. Smith (middle), and Sir Gregory P. Winter (right)
2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Since life was born 3.7 billion years ago, hot springs, deep seas, deserts, and every corner of the earth have been filled with different creatures. And all this cannot be separated from the huge power of evolution. Evolution is equally important for important life molecule proteins. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded three scientists who drew inspiration from evolution. The essence of the evolution of lies in the changes and selection of genetic material. These scientists used this principle to develop a variety of proteins that benefited humans.
Jacques Professor Dubochet (left), Professor Joachim Frank (middle), Professor Richard Henderson (right)
2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Image is the key to our understanding of everything, and visualizing those objects that are invisible to the human eye is the basis for scientific research to make breakthroughs. For a long time in the past, imaging technology in the field of biochemistry has been blank because existing technologies are difficult to describe too much imagery of the molecular mechanisms of life. The emergence of cryoelectron microscopy technology has changed all this . The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field of cryoelectron microscopy technology.
Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage (left), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (middle), and Professor Bernard L. Feringa (right)
2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The development of computing shows us how microtechnology triggers a scientific and technological revolution. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who made outstanding contributions to in the field of "Design and Synthesis of Molecular Machines". They successfully designed and manufactured a "molecular machine" whose movement can be controlled with added energy, miniaturized the machine and brought the development of chemistry to a new dimension.
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[1]The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021. Retrieved Oct 06, 2021, from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-chemistry/
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