Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 winners. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: The MOF Revolution – Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Capture and Green Energy

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Three researchers – Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yagi – have won the Nobel Prize for developing novel porous materials capable of storing, filtering and trapping molecules, with applications ranging from medicine to the climate crisis.
Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, two of the main researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Artificial intelligence plays a major role in two categories of the 2024 Nobel Prizes. This is a sign of things to come

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It is likely that we will see more Nobel medals awarded to researchers who used AI tools. As this happens, we may find that the scientific methods honored by those Nobel Prize committees will move away from the simple categories of "physics," "chemistry," and "physiology."
Technion President Prof. Uri Sion awards Prof. Ada Yonat the honorary degree. Photo: Rami Shloush, Technion Spokesperson

The Technion awarded an honorary doctorate to writer David Grossman and Nobel laureate Prof. Ada Yonat

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Prof. Ada Yonat from the Weizmann Institute of Science, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, received an honorary doctorate "in recognition of her pioneering contribution to the research of the ribosome - the universal complex for translating genetic information into proteins
Marie Curie's X-ray car in World War I. Photo: French National Library

The first X-ray mobiles - Marie Curie's war

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With the approach of the German army to Paris, Marie Curie was forced to retrain in the absence of the ability to research radium. She came up with an idea - to equip vehicles with X-ray devices and bring them close to the front to
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three chemical waves Click bioorthogonal chemistry to improve the precision of medicines

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022 was awarded to three scientists working in the field of synthetic chemistry: Caroline Bertuzzi (Carolyn R. Bertozzi), Morten P. Meldal (Morten P. Meldal) as well as Karl Barry Sharpless (KarlBarrySharpless), thanks to "the development of
Winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Bannister Goodenough, Manley Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for lithium-ion battery developers

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Bacteriophages attack bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 to three researchers for harnessing evolution to develop environmentally friendly catalysts, proteins and antibodies

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An example of improving the resolution of a biomolecule: from the left, before 2013; On the right, today.

Life at the atomic level

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An example of improving the resolution of a biomolecule: from the left, before 2013; On the right, today.

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Developers of a method for imaging biological molecules in an electron microscope

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A molecular car. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry 2016

An elevator, a muscle, a tiny computer chip and a Nobel Prize - How molecules become machines - Part II

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A molecular car. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry 2016

Who will drive a molecular car? - How molecules become machines - Part I

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A molecular car. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry 2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three researchers for the development of the synthesis of molecular machines

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Prof. Martin Karpelos from Harvard University at the 'Science in the age of experience' conference held in Boston, 23.5.16/XNUMX/XNUMX Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Nobel Laureate Martin Karpelos: The discovery of personalized medicine will only be possible through simulation

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Dr. Shira Adar with Nobel laureate in chemistry Professor Aziz Sanger. (Photo: Max Englund, UNC Health Care)

The Israeli postdoctoral student researching with 2015 Nobel laureate in chemistry Professor Aziz Sanger

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The DNA code. Image: shutterstock

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 – Part 3: Modritz discovered the DNA repair mechanisms

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The process of repair through nucleotide excision that earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoverers of DNA repair mechanisms

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman in an interview with Channel 1: wants to run for president

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The 2013 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry in their Nobel Lecture, December 9, 2013. From the right: Martin Karpelos, Michael Levitt and Aryeh Warshel, and next to them is the moderator of the event on behalf of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"If I were 30 years younger I would develop a simulation of the brain"

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Prof. Aryeh Warshel, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From his website at the University of Southern California.

The connection between quantum physics and organic chemistry. Part two of the interview given by Nobel laureate Prof. Aryeh Warshel to the Hidan website

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Prof. Aryeh Warshel, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Photo courtesy of him.

Prof. Aryeh Warshel in an interview with the Hidaan site: "I was always content with the first formula in the book, and I entered it into the computer." First part of the series

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Prof. Michael Levitt. From Wikipedia

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Prof. Michael Levitt, in an interview with the Hedaan website: "The Nobel Prize is not only for the three of us, but also recognition of the importance of computers and simulation."

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Huge importance for science, medicine and industry. Prof. Aryeh Warshel (on the right) and Prof. Michael (Michael) Levitt. Photos: Keilana, Catgunhome -- Wikishare

We have a pupa in a test tube

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GROEL protein folding simulation. Photo: shutterstock

Exclusive: The work of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry is closely related to the Weizmann Institute

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DNA nanotechnology. Illustration: shutterstock

Will the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 win again this year?

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In the photo: Professor Hershko (from the left) and Professor Chakhanover. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Professors Avraham Hershko and Aharon Chachanover, Nobel laureates from the Technion, were elected to the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research

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From the Nobel Prize presentation

How does the cell sense its environment?

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Prof. Robert Lebkovitch, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

An injection of adrenaline for science: two researchers in the field of intercellular communication won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives an honorary statuette from Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. Next to them is MK Ronit Tirosh. PR photo, Israel Sun

Knesset Speaker Robbie Rivlin, "If we want more Shechtmans, we need to invest in creating an appropriate educational and scientific atmosphere"

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Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and economics for 2011 at a press conference in Stockholm. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Professor Dan Shechtman at a press conference in Stockholm: I didn't break because I believe in my science

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quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

From Quasi-Crystals to the Nobel Prize / Louisa Meshi and Adin Stern

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Professor Shechtman thanks his well-wishers. To his left - Professor Peretz Lavi, president of the Technion. Photo: Shlomo Shem, spokeswoman for the Technion.

The Technion celebrated a Nobel Prize with Professor Danny Shechtman

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The cover of the book drive and curiosity by Ishtavan Hargitai, Prometheus Publishing

Exclusive to the Hidan website: the chapter dealing with Prof. Dan Shechtman - impossible material, from Ishtavan Hargitay's book Drive And Curiosity

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Prof. Ishtavan Hargitai. Photo courtesy of the author

How and why did the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dan Shechtman, persist even though he was rejected?

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Figure 3. Different types of symmetry in crystals. The pattern of the 5th order symmetry crystal will never repeat itself.

On minerals, knits and gems

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Prof. Dan Shechtman and the editor of the science website Avi Blizovsky, 5/10/2011

Prof. Shechtman in an interview with the Hadaan website: "Ilan Blach, John Kahn and Dennis Gratis deserved to share the Nobel with me"

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Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Danny Shechtman - the tragedy of the scientists, and the triumph of science

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Figure 1. Daniel Shechtman's interference pattern had an axis of symmetry of order 10: rotating the image by a tenth of a complete circle (36 degrees) led to obtaining the same pattern.

Crystals with golden ratios - the full text

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Prof. Dan Shechtman in his laboratory near the electron microscope. Photo: Technion

Science Minister Hershkowitz: The award is proof that Israel is a scientific power

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Nobel laureate Prof. Danny Shechtman and Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavi at the press conference on the occasion of the award, 5.10.11 Photo by Avi Blizovsky

"I feel like I'm at the forefront of science that thousands of people are engaged in"

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quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

On quasi-crystals and the golden ratio

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Prof. Danny Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Prof. Danny Shechtman of the Technion won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasi-crystals

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Prof. Ada Yonat

The Open University will award an honorary fellow title to Prof. Ada Yonat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Prof. Aharon Chachanover

Who is for life and who is for death

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Increasing the interest of young people in the field of chemistry

2011 - International Year of Chemistry

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Nobel Prize Medal

The "molecule makers" won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - extended explanation

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Prof. Robert Korel, Bar Ilan, April 2010. Photo: Bar Ilan University

Nobel laureate Robert Correll, discoverer of bucky balls: "The nanotechnology revolution has only just begun"

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Prof. Aharon Chachanover

The University of Haifa will award an honorary doctorate to Prof. Aharon Chakhanover

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Zerez Groves from the second generation.

New details about the activity of an important catalyst

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

This week it's happening: the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Prof. Ada Yonat

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ribosome: the key to life at the atomic level part XNUMX

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