2014 Event Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells 1998 Death Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79 1993 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith 1988 Event 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel 1985 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle 1984 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield 1976 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr 1974 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) 1968 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) 1966 Event Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken 1965 Event Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward 1965 Event Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry 1954 Event Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize 1954 Event Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry 1936 Event Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry 1934 Event Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) 1915 Event Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry 1907 Birthday Alexander Todd, born in Scotland, born Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, Nobel-Prize for Chemistry for structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, nucleotide coenzymes 1894 Birthday Lloyd A. Hall, born in Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry 1881 Birthday Colin G Fink, U.S. chemist, electro chemistry 1817 Birthday Hermann Kopp, German chemist, Jahresbericht of Chemistry 1805 Birthday Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry 1743 Birthday Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry, Oxygen
