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Beijing time on October 7th at around 5:48 pm Beijing time, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced. French and American scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna won the award for "developing a genome editing method."
This year's Nobel Prize individual prize has increased to 10 million Swedish kroner (approximately RMB 7.6 million), an increase of 1 million SEK from 2019.
List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry in the past 5 years
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 made in the development of lithium-ion batteries."
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 peptic acid and antibodies."
2017 - Swiss , three scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, won the award. The reason for the award was "developed cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution determination of biomolecular structures in solutions."
2016 - France, the United States, Netherlands 73 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—HTM6 Swedish , United States, Turkey 3 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 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 111 times, and the 8 years that have not been awarded were 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941 and 1942.
—From 1901 to 2019, a total of 184 people won the award, and the actual winner was 183, because British scientist Frederick Sanger won the award twice in 1958 and 1980.
——Of all the awards presented 111 times, 63 were individual winners, 23 shared by 2 people, and 25 shared by 3 people.
—The youngest winner is French scientist Frédéric Joliot. He won the award in 1915 with his wife Irène Joliot-Curie for "synthetic new radioactive elements". 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 Nobel Prize winner when he won the award.
—Only 183 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, only 5 women. They are , Madame Curie in 1911 (Madame Curie also won the Physics Award in 1903), Irène Joliot-Curie in 1935, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, Ada Yonath in 2009, and Frances H. Arnold in 2018.
