The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951-1960

"for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"

Edwin Mattison McMillan   Glenn Theodore Seaborg

Edwin Mattison McMillan       Glenn Theodore Seaborg

USA                                       USA

University of California            University of California

Berkeley, CA, USA              Berkeley, CA, USA

b. 1907                                  b. 1912

d. 1991                                  d. 1999

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952

"for their invention of partition chromatography"

Archer John Porter Martin   Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Archer John Porter Martin    Richard Laurence Millington Synge

United Kingdom                   United Kingdom

National Institute for              Rowett Research Institute

Medical Research                 Bucksburn (Scotland), United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

b. 1910                                 b. 1914

d. 2002                                 d. 1994

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953

Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger

Federal Republic of Germany

University of Freiburg; Staatliches Institut für makromolekulare Chemie (State Research Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry), Freiburg

Breisgau, Federal Republic of Germany

b. 1881

d. 1965

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954

Linus Carl Pauling

Linus Carl Pauling

USA

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Pasadena, CA, USA

b. 1901

d. 1994

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955

Vincent du Vigneaud

Vincent du Vigneaud

USA

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY, USA

b. 1901

d. 1978

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

"for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood    Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov 

Sir Cyril Norman                  Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov

Hinshelwood  

United Kingdom                   USSR

University of Oxford            Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Oxford, United Kingdom     Moscow, USSR

b. 1897                               b. 1896

d. 1967                               d. 1986

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957

"Lord (Alexander R.) Todd

Lord (Alexander R.) Todd

United Kingdom

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

b. 1907

d. 1997

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958

Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

United Kingdom

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

b. 1918

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959

Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Czechoslovakia

Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science

Prague, Czechoslovakia

b. 1890

d. 1967

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960

Willard Frank Libby

Willard Frank Libby

USA

University of California

Los Angeles, CA, USA

b. 1908

d. 1980

 

 

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