Premi Nobel per la Chimica dal 1931 al 1940

* 1931
The Prize was awarded jointly to:
Carl Bosch (Germany, 27.8.1874 - 26.4.1940)
Germany, Heidelberg University and I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G., Heidelberg,
and
* Friedrich Bergius (Germany, 11.10.1884 - 30.3.1949)
Germany, Heidelberg University and I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. Mannheim-Rheinau,
"in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods".
* 1932
Irving Langmuir (USA, 31.1.1881 - 16.8.1957)
USA, General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY,
"for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry".
* 1933
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
* 1934
Harold Clayton Urey (USA, 29.4.1893 - 6.1.1981)
USA, Columbia University, New York, NY,
"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen".
* 1935
The Prize was awarded jointly to:
Frédéric Joliot (France, 19.3.1900 - 14.8.1958)
France, Institut du Radium, Paris,
and his wife
* Irène Joliot-Curie (France, 12.9.1897 - 17.3.1956)
France, Institut du Radium, Paris,
"in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements".
* 1936
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye (Holland, 24.3.1884 - 2.11.1966)
Germany, Berlin University, and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik, Berlin-Dahlem,
"for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases".
* 1937
The Prize was divided equally between:
Sir Walter Norman Haworth (Great Britain, 19.3.1883 - 19.3.1950)
Great Britain, Birmingham University,
"for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C".
and
* Paul Karrer (Switzerland, 21.4.1889 - 18.6.1971)
Switzerland, Zürich University,
"for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2".
* 1938
Richard Kuhn (Vienna, Austria, 3.12.1900 - 31.7.1967)
Germany, Heidelberg University and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg,
"for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".
* 1939
The Prize was divided equally between:
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (Germany, 24.3.1903 - 18.1.1995)
Germany, Berlin University and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Biochemie, Berlin-Dahlem,
"for his work on sex hormones".
and
*
Leopold Ruzicka (Vukovar, then Austria-Hungary, 13.9.1887 - 26.9.1976)
Switzerland, Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule, (Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich,
"for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes".
* 1940
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
 
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