At around 5:49 pm Beijing time on October 6, the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced. Benjamin Lister and David W.C. Macmillan were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “development in asymmetric organocatalysis.”
The Nobel Prize single prize in 2021 is 10 million Swedish kroner (approximately RMB 7.36 million).
List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry in the past six years
2020—French and American scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna won the award, and the reason for winning was "developing a genome editing method."
2019 - Three scientists in the United States and Japan, John B Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittlingham, and Akira Yoshino, won the award, and the reason for winning was "contributions to the development of lithium-ion battery ".
2018 - American scientist Frances H. Arnoid won the award, with the reason for "studying the directional evolution of enzymes"; the other two winners are George P. Smith from the United States and Sir Gregory P. Winter from the United Kingdom, with the reason for "studying phage display technology of pepticine and antibodies."
2017 - Swiss , US and UK scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson won the award. The reason for the award was "developed cryo-electron microscope for high-resolution determination of biomolecular structure in solution."
2016 - France, the United States, Netherlands 3 scientists Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa won the award, and the reason for the award was "design and synthesis of molecular machines."
2015— Swedish , US and Turkey three scientists Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar won the award, and the reason for the award was "Research on the Mechanism of DNA Repair".
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
—As of 2020, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 112 times, and the 8 years that have not been awarded were 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941 and 1942.
—From 1901 to 2020, a total of 186 people won the award, and the actual winner was 185, because British scientist Frederick Sanger won the award twice in 1958 and 1980.
——Of all the awards awards, 63 were individual winners, 24 were shared by 2 people, and 25 were shared by 3 people.
- The youngest winner is French scientist Frédéric Joliot. He won the award in 1935 with his wife Irène Joliot-Curie for "synthetic new radioactive element ". He was 35 years old.
- The oldest winner is American scientist John B. Goodenough, who won the award in 2019 for "contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries" at the age of 97. He is also the oldest winner of any Nobel Prize winner to date.
—Of all 185 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, 7 women. They are Madame Curie in 1911 (Mrs. Curie also won the Physics Award in 1903), Irène Joliot-Curie in 1935, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, Ada Yonath in 2009, Frances H. Arnold in 2018, and Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna in 2020.
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"Above the Cloud" Chemistry Award, what does
have to do with you?
If Nobel Prize in Literature can also make ordinary people comment, then the Chemistry Prize is too profound. In addition to looking at "who won the prize this year", the overall impression it gives is still "high in the cloud".
In fact, the scientific research results of the Chemistry Award have long been integrated into the lives of ordinary people. Let’s take a look at two examples:
- mobile phone battery
Imagine if the phone must be plugged in to use, it will be powered off if it is unplugged. Will there be the technological progress of "traveling all over the world with one machine in hand" today?
is right, the "heroic" that frees the mobile phone from the socket is the lithium battery.
In October 2019, the "father of lithium batteries" Goodinav , the inventor of modern lithium batteries Yoshino Akira , and Weitinghan, who has pioneering research in the field of lithium batteries, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry that year. The reason given by the Nobel Prize Official Website is: "They have created a rechargeable world."
Look in your hands, and then around you. Are lithium batteries everywhere in the world we live in?
- Plastic
Toothbrush, takeaway box, mobile phone case, aircraft parts... It can be said that plastic has been integrated into all aspects of modern society.
However, when we use these inconspicuous plastic products "for granted", have you ever thought that they all come from advanced theories and are not long ago.
1953, for their contributions to polymer chemistry, German science Staudinger won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; in 1963, Italian scientist Nata and German scientist Ziegler won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing polymer plastics.
Thanks to their discoveries and research, the development of human society The process has also been greatly promoted.
However, in recent years, people seem to have "colored changes" when talking about plastics. The reason is that while this white garbage brings us convenience, it also causes serious damage to the environment.
However, although environmental protection issues have made people feel disgusted with plastics, scientific research is endless. Maybe in a few years, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to a person who can properly solve the plastics. Scientists of material pollution. In addition to these two examples, including the "NMR" technology that has been popularized in hospitals and neon lights that decorate the night sky, are typical examples of the application of Nobel Prize results in practice.
As Ignaro, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, said, "Any scientific discovery that wins the Nobel Prize should not be shelved, but should benefit the public. ”
Comprehensive: China News Network, Guangming Network, etc.
Source: Voice of West Lake
