The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

William S. Knowles                                        Ryoji Noyori                                                   K. Barry Sharpless

USA                                                               Japan                                                              USA

St. Louis, MO, USA                                      Nagoya University                                           The Scripps Research Institute

La Jolla, CA, USA                                         Nagoya, Japan 

b. 1917                                                          b. 1938                                                             b. 1941

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002

John B. Fenn                                                 Koichi Tanaka                                              Kurt Wüthrich

USA                                                             Japan                                                           Switzerland

Virginia Commonwealth University               Shimadzu Corp.                                             Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal

                                                                                                                                           Institute of  Technology)

Richmond, VA, USA                                  Kyoto, Japan                                                   Zurich, Switzerland; The Scripps Research Institute

                                                                                                                                          La Jolla, CA, USA

b. 1917                                                       b. 1959                                                           b. 1938

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003

Peter Agre                                                          Roderick MacKinnon

USA                                                                  USA

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine    Rockefeller University

Baltimore, MD, USA                                         New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

b. 1949                                                             b. 1956

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004

Aaron Ciechanover                                      Avram Hershko                                          Irwin Rose

Israel                                                           Israel                                                           USA

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology     Technion – Israel Institute of Technology       University of California

Haifa,                                                          Israel  Haifa, Israel                                       Irvine, CA, USA

b. 1947                                                        b. 1937(in Karcag, Hungary)                        b. 1926

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

Yves Chauvin                                            Robert H. Grubbs                                       Richard R. Schrock

France                                                       USA                                                          USA

Institut Français du Pétrole                        California Institute of Technology (Caltech)   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Rueil-Malmaison, France                           Pasadena, CA, USA                                   Cambridge, MA, USA

b. 1930                                                      b. 1942                                                       b. 1945

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006

Photo: Stanford University

Roger D. Kornberg

USA

Stanford University

Stanford, CA, USA

b. 1947

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007

Photo: U. Montan

Gerhard Ertl

Germany

Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Berlin, Germany

b. 1936

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Osamu Shimomura                                             Martin Chalfie                                             Roger Y. Tsien

USA                                                                  USA                                                          USA

Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)                 Columbia University                                     University of California

Woods Hole, MA, USA; Boston University       New York, NY, USA                                  San Diego, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Medical School

Massachusetts, MA, USA              

b. 1928(in Kyoto, Japan)                                    b. 1947                                                       b. 1952

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