Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:

At around 17:45 Beijing time on October 4th, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry would be awarded to Professor Moungi G. Bawendi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Louis E. Bruce of Columbia University, and Alexey I. Ekimov, a scientist at the American Nanocrystalline Technology Company, In recognition of their contributions to the discovery and development of quantum dots.

The prize money for each Nobel Prize in 2023 has increased from 10 million Swedish kroner last year to 11 million Swedish kroner, equivalent to approximately 7.25 million yuan.

The Chemistry Prize is one of the research fields mentioned in the will by Swedish chemist and inventor of nitroglycerin explosives, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, to establish the prize.

On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his third and final will in Paris, leaving most of his wealth for the establishment of a series of awards, the Nobel Prize.

The first Nobel Prize medal awarded in 1901. 

According to data released on the Nobel Prize website (www.nobelprize. org), a total of 189 people won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1901 and 2022.

The oldest Nobel laureate in chemistry to date is American physicist John B. Goodenough. He was already 97 years old when he won the Chemistry Award in 2019. He is also the oldest recipient of all Nobel Prize categories.

The youngest Nobel laureate in chemistry to date is French physicist Fr é d é ric Joliot. When he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 with his wife Ir è ne Joliot Curie, he was only 35 years old.

British biochemist Frederick Sanger and American chemist K. Barry Sharpless have both won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.