Premio Nobel de Química
Galardonados judíos del Premio Nobel de Química documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 19 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
38 galardonados documentados
Adolf von Baeyer1835
Químico orgánico who synthesized indigo dye; Premio Nobel de Química 1905
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Henri Moissan1852
Químico who first isolated fluorine; Premio Nobel de Química 1906
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Otto Wallach1847
Químico conocido por alicyclic compounds and terpenes; Premio Nobel 1910
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Richard Willstätter1915
Worked out the chemistry of chlorophyll and other plant pigments; Premio Nobel de Química 1915
Fuente: Wikipedia — Richard Willstätter
Fritz Haber1918
Synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen, the basis of the Haber–Bosch process and of nitrogen fertiliser; Premio Nobel de Química 1918
Fuente: Wikipedia — Fritz Haber / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1918
George de Hevesy1943
Pionero de radioactive tracers in chemistry and biology and co-discoverer of hafnium; Premio Nobel de Química 1943
Fuente: Wikipedia — George de Hevesy
Melvin Calvin1961
Photosynthesis
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1961
Max Perutz1962
Hemoglobin Structure
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1962
Christian Anfinsen1972
Showed with ribonuclease that a protein's amino-acid sequence alone determines its folded, active shape; Premio Nobel de Química 1972
Fuente: Wikipedia — Christian Anfinsen
William Stein1972
Ribonuclease Structure
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1972
Ilya Prigogine1977
Dissipative Structures
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1977
Herbert Brown1979
Químico who found how to make sodium borohydride and developed hydroboration, turning boron compounds into important reagents of organic synthesis; Premio Nobel de Química 1979
Fuente: Wikipedia — Herbert Brown / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1979
Paul Berg1972
Bioquímico who made the first recombinant DNA molecule in 1972, the starting point of genetic engineering, and organized the 1975 Asilomar conference on its safety; Premio Nobel de Química 1980
Fuente: Wikipedia — Paul Berg / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1980
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Roald Hoffmann1981
Químico teórico and child survivor of the Holocaust who with Robert Woodward set out the orbital symmetry rules for the course of chemical reactions; Premio Nobel de Química 1981, shared with Kenichi…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Roald Hoffmann / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1981
Aaron Klug1982
Crystallographic Electron Microscopy
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1982
Herbert Hauptman1985
X-ray Crystallography
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1985
Jerome Karle1985
Químico físico who with Herbert Hauptman developed the direct methods for determining crystal structures from X-ray diffraction data; Premio Nobel de Química 1985
Fuente: Wikipedia — Jerome Karle / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1985
John Polanyi1929
Químico conocido por reaction dynamics and chemiluminescence; Premio Nobel 1986
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Sidney Altman1989
Catalytic RNA
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1989
Rudolph Marcus1923
Químico teórico whose Marcus theory explains the rates of electron transfer reactions, from corrosion to photosynthesis, and co-author of the RRKM theory of reaction rates; Premio Nobel de Química…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Rudolph Marcus / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1992
George Olah1927
Químico who used superacids to make fleeting carbocations stable enough to study; Premio Nobel de Química 1994
Fuente: Wikipedia — George Olah
Harold Kroto1996
Premio Nobel in chemistry (1996) for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry
Walter Kohn1923
Físico, cofundador de density functional theory; Premio Nobel de Química 1998
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Alan Heeger1936
Químico conocido por conductive polymers; Premio Nobel de Química 2000
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Aaron Ciechanover2004
Descubrimiento de la degradación de proteínas mediada por ubiquitina
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Avram Hershko2004
Descubrimiento de la degradación de proteínas mediada por ubiquitina
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Irwin Rose1926
Recibió el 2004 Premio Nobel for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Roger Kornberg2006
Bioquímico who identified the nucleosome and captured the transcription machinery of eukaryotic cells in atomic detail; Premio Nobel de Química 2006
Fuente: Wikipedia — Roger Kornberg
Martin Chalfie1947
Showed that the jellyfish's green fluorescent protein (GFP) can light up chosen cells in living organisms; Premio Nobel de Química 2008
Fuente: Wikipedia — Martin Chalfie
Ada Yonath2009
Estudios de la estructura y función del ribosoma
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009
Dan Shechtman2011
Cuasicristales
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
Robert Lefkowitz1943
Médico and biochemist who tracked down and characterised the G-protein-coupled receptors through which about half of all medicines act; Premio Nobel de Química 2012
Fuente: Wikipedia — Robert Lefkowitz
Martin Karplus2013
Químico teórico who pioneered computer simulations of molecules, from the Karplus equation to the first molecular dynamics of a protein; Premio Nobel de Química 2013
Fuente: Wikipedia — Martin Karplus
Michael Levitt2013
Química computacional
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 2013
Arieh Warshel2013
Computational chemist who, with Michael Levitt, published the first computer model of an enzymatic reaction (the QM/MM approach); Premio Nobel de Química 2013
Fuente: Wikipedia — Arieh Warshel
David Baker1962
Bioquímico que creó the Rosetta software and designed Top7, the first protein with a structure unknown in nature; Premio Nobel de Química 2024 for computational protein design
Fuente: Wikipedia — David Baker
Henri Kagan2026
Químico, pionero de asymmetric catalysis (DIOP, nonlinear effects); Premio Nobel de Química 2026
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 2026 / Wikipedia — Henri B. Kagan