Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson were honoured for developing cryo-electron microscopy which simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules

CHEMISTRY PRIZE IN NUMBERS
Nobel Prizes in Chemistry awarded from 1901 to 2016

Women awarded Chemistry Prize to date

person, Frederick Sanger, awarded prize twice, in 1958 and in 1980

Age of youngest laureate, Frédéric Joliot, awarded prize in 1935

Age of oldest laureate, John B. Fenn, awarded prize in 2002

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