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Featured chemistry laureates

Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.

Melvin Calvin

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants.

Sir Harold W. Kroto

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 for their discovery of fullerenes.

Dan Shechtman

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals.

Akira Yoshino

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

Emmanuelle Charpentier

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for the development of a method for genome editing.

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Battery: Kilimanjaro ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Genetic scissors: © Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Quasicrystals: J.W. Evans, The Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Buckyball: Mstroeck, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.