Prix Nobel de chimie
Lauréats juifs du Prix Nobel de chimie répertoriés dans l'annuaire ThankJews. Les Juifs représentent environ 19 % de l'ensemble des lauréats — alors qu'ils constituent à peu près 0,2 % de la population mondiale.
38 lauréats répertoriés
Adolf von Baeyer1835
Chimiste organicien who synthesized indigo dye; Prix Nobel de chimie 1905
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Henri Moissan1852
Chimiste who first isolated fluorine; Prix Nobel de chimie 1906
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Otto Wallach1847
Chimiste connu pour alicyclic compounds and terpenes; prix Nobel 1910
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Richard Willstätter1915
Worked out the chemistry of chlorophyll and other plant pigments; Prix Nobel de chimie 1915
Source : Wikipedia — Richard Willstätter
Fritz Haber1918
Synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen, the basis of the Haber–Bosch process and of nitrogen fertiliser; Prix Nobel de chimie 1918
Source : Wikipedia — Fritz Haber / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1918
George de Hevesy1943
Pionnier de radioactive tracers in chemistry and biology and co-discoverer of hafnium; Prix Nobel de chimie 1943
Source : Wikipedia — George de Hevesy
Melvin Calvin1961
Photosynthesis
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1961
Max Perutz1962
Hemoglobin Structure
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1962
Christian Anfinsen1972
Showed with ribonuclease that a protein's amino-acid sequence alone determines its folded, active shape; Prix Nobel de chimie 1972
Source : Wikipedia — Christian Anfinsen
William Stein1972
Ribonuclease Structure
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1972
Ilya Prigogine1977
Dissipative Structures
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1977
Herbert Brown1979
Chimiste who found how to make sodium borohydride and developed hydroboration, turning boron compounds into important reagents of organic synthesis; Prix Nobel de chimie 1979
Source : Wikipedia — Herbert Brown / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1979
Paul Berg1972
Biochimiste who made the first recombinant DNA molecule in 1972, the starting point of genetic engineering, and organized the 1975 Asilomar conference on its safety; Prix Nobel de chimie 1980
Source : Wikipedia — Paul Berg / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1980
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
Roald Hoffmann1981
Chimiste théoricien and child survivor of the Holocaust who with Robert Woodward set out the orbital symmetry rules for the course of chemical reactions; Prix Nobel de chimie 1981, shared with…
Source : Wikipedia — Roald Hoffmann / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1981
Aaron Klug1982
Crystallographic Electron Microscopy
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1982
Herbert Hauptman1985
X-ray Crystallography
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1985
Jerome Karle1985
Chimiste physicien who with Herbert Hauptman developed the direct methods for determining crystal structures from X-ray diffraction data; Prix Nobel de chimie 1985
Source : Wikipedia — Jerome Karle / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1985
John Polanyi1929
Chimiste connu pour reaction dynamics and chemiluminescence; prix Nobel 1986
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Sidney Altman1989
Catalytic RNA
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 1989
Rudolph Marcus1923
Chimiste théoricien whose Marcus theory explains the rates of electron transfer reactions, from corrosion to photosynthesis, and co-author of the RRKM theory of reaction rates; Prix Nobel de chimie…
Source : Wikipedia — Rudolph Marcus / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1992
George Olah1927
Chimiste who used superacids to make fleeting carbocations stable enough to study; Prix Nobel de chimie 1994
Source : Wikipedia — George Olah
Harold Kroto1996
Lauréat du prix Nobel in chemistry (1996) for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry
Walter Kohn1923
Physicien, cofondateur de density functional theory; Prix Nobel de chimie 1998
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Alan Heeger1936
Chimiste connu pour conductive polymers; Prix Nobel de chimie 2000
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Aaron Ciechanover2004
Découverte de la dégradation des protéines par l'ubiquitine
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Avram Hershko2004
Découverte de la dégradation des protéines par l'ubiquitine
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Irwin Rose1926
A reçu le 2004 prix Nobel for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Roger Kornberg2006
Biochimiste who identified the nucleosome and captured the transcription machinery of eukaryotic cells in atomic detail; Prix Nobel de chimie 2006
Source : Wikipedia — Roger Kornberg
Martin Chalfie1947
Showed that the jellyfish's green fluorescent protein (GFP) can light up chosen cells in living organisms; Prix Nobel de chimie 2008
Source : Wikipedia — Martin Chalfie
Ada Yonath2009
Travaux sur la structure et la fonction du ribosome
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009
Dan Shechtman2011
Quasi-cristaux
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
Robert Lefkowitz1943
Médecin and biochemist who tracked down and characterised the G-protein-coupled receptors through which about half of all medicines act; Prix Nobel de chimie 2012
Source : Wikipedia — Robert Lefkowitz
Martin Karplus2013
Chimiste théoricien who pioneered computer simulations of molecules, from the Karplus equation to the first molecular dynamics of a protein; Prix Nobel de chimie 2013
Source : Wikipedia — Martin Karplus
Michael Levitt2013
Chimie numérique
Source : 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); Prix Nobel de chimie 2013
Source : Wikipedia — Arieh Warshel
David Baker1962
Biochimiste qui a créé the Rosetta software and designed Top7, the first protein with a structure unknown in nature; Prix Nobel de chimie 2024 for computational protein design
Source : Wikipedia — David Baker
Henri Kagan2026
Chimiste, pionnier de asymmetric catalysis (DIOP, nonlinear effects); Prix Nobel de chimie 2026
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 2026 / Wikipedia — Henri B. Kagan