List of Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners Over the Past 10 Years

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Stockholm: Here is a list of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners over the past 10 years:

2023: Moungi Bawendi (United States-France-Tunisia), Louis Brus (United States), and Alexei Ekimov (Russian-born) for developing tiny “quantum dots” used to illuminate TVs and lamps.

2022: Carolyn Bertozzi (United States), Morten Meldal (Denmark), and Barry Sharpless (United States) for the development of click chemistry, enabling molecular building blocks to snap together quickly and efficiently in living organisms.

2021: Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (United States) for their development of asymmetric organocatalysis, a precise tool for molecular construction that impacts pharmaceutical research and makes chemistry greener.

2020: Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) and Jennifer Doudna (United States) for developing the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique, the “scissors” for snipping DNA.

2019: John Goodenough (United States), Stanley Whittingham (Britain), and Akira Yoshino (Japan) for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

2018: Frances Arnold (United States), George Smith (United States), and Gregory Winter (Britain) for developing enzymes for greener chemistry and antibody drugs with fewer side effects.

2017: Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (United States), and Richard Henderson (Britain) for cryo-electron microscopy, a method for imaging tiny frozen molecules.

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France), Fraser Stoddart (Britain), and Bernard Feringa (Netherlands) for developing molecular machines, the world’s smallest machines.

2015: Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (United States), and Aziz Sancar (Turkey-United States) for their work on how cells repair damaged DNA.

2014: Eric Betzig (United States), William Moerner (United States), and Stefan Hell (Germany) for the development of super-high-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

2013: Martin Karplus (United States-Austria), Michael Levitt (United States-Britain), and Arieh Warshel (United States-Israel) for devising computer models to simulate chemical processes.