The Franklin Institute
Marie Curie
Read the history of Marie Curie and her work with radium. Use the tabs above to read more about this scientist, her research, and her rewards.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius was born in Vik, Sweden, and became the first native of that country to win the Nobel Prize. The award for chemistry was bestowed to him in honor of his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Arrhenius also developed the...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium
The Nobel Foundation provides a lecture given by Nanny Froman at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Sotckholm, Sweden. "Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium" is organized into several sections including:...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Linus C. Pauling, ph.d.
A biography of Linus Pauling, winner of Nobel Prizes for Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962). He spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons when it was an unpopular cause, and spent his life informing the public about a range of health...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Mario J. Molina, ph.d.
Read about the life of Mario J. Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the danger that chlorofluorocarbons presented to the Earth's ozone layer long before anyone else recognized it. Includes a profile, videos,...
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The Nobel Prize: Official Website of the Nobel Prize
Home on the web of the Nobel Prize and the foundation that sponsors the awards, given annually, for outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The site features current winners each year. You will...
Texas A&M University
Cells Are Us: Story Time: Linus Pauling
Read about the early life of Linus Pauling and how his interest in science as a boy led to his career as a scientist.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Find information on each Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner since 1901, including their Nobel lectures. In addition, there are videos about chemistry topics and articles about the prize itself.
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The Nobel Prize: Kurt Wuthrich Biographical
Autobiographical information on Kurt Wuthrich, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Linus Pauling (1901 1994)
This Access Excellence site provides a general biography of Linus Pauling, the two-time Nobel laureate who the elucidated chemical bonding, amino acid and protein structures, and the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Peter Debye
Peter Debye carried out pioneering studies of molecular dipole moments, formulated theories of magnetic cooling and of electrolytic dissociation, and developed an X-ray diffraction technique for use with powdered, rather than...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ahmed Zewail
Learn about Ahmed Zewail, the father of femtochemistry, and the first Arab scientist to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Dorothy Hodgkin
A short biography about Dorothy Hodgkin, a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Glenn Seaborg
Learn about Glenn Seaborg, the man who took part in the discovery of ten of the periodic table's chemical elements, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Wilhelm Ostwald
Learn about the life and work of Wilhelm Ostwald, the chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Willard Frank Libby
Learn about the life and work of Willard Libby, the scientist who helped in the development of radiocarbon dating which led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: William Ramsay
A short biography about William Ramsay, the scientist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904.
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The Nobel Prize: Wendell Stanley Biographical
This is a brief Nobel E-Museum biography on Wendell Meredith Stanley, the scientist and co-recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Read about his education, as well as his contributions to various scientific studies through which...
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The Nobel Prize: Wendell Meredith Stanley Nobel Lecture
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can download and read Wendell Meredith Stanley's Nobel Lecture, entitled "The isolation and properties of crystalline tobacco mosaic virus." Lecture is available in PDF format.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Kurt Wuthrich
A brief explanation of the work in nuclear magnetic resonance which earned Kurt Wuthrich the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners 1901 2011
A list of the Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners from 1901 to the present. Click on each name to find stats and featured links on each person.