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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Israeli Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath, who is also a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at a press conference in Rehovot. (Flash90)
August 31, 2026, 9:45 pm
Nobel Prize-winning Israeli chemist Ada Yonath dies at 87
Noted for her groundbreaking research on ribosome crystals, Yonath was one of the country’s greatest scientific minds, winning numerous awards over her decades-long career
By ToI Staff
(L to R) Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Olof Ramstroem, Member of the Nobel Committe for Chemistry, pose with a model during a press conference to announce Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar M. Yaghi as the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 8, 2025. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
October 8, 2025, 4:45 pm
US scientist of Palestinian descent among three winners of Nobel prize for chemistry
Omar Yaghi, born and raised in Amman, shares award with two others for work on molecular architecture; first Palestinian Nobel laureate since Arafat; also won Israeli award in 2018
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Johan Åqvist, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Permanent Secretary and Heiner Linke, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry award this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)
October 9, 2024, 4:44 pm
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientists who predicted proteins’ shapes using AI
David Baker, of Seattle’s University of Washington, produced ‘mind-blowing’ designs for novel proteins, using breakthrough tech by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, John Jumper
By Daniel Niemann and Mike Corder
Illustrative - A protester adds a portrait of a hostage to a wall of such posters during a rally for supporters and relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7, in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2023 (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
January 9, 2024, 2:49 pm
Nobel laureates pen plea to international organizations demanding action on hostages
Letter is accompanied by an updated, detailed report on hostage health based on medical records and testimony of released hostages about horrific conditions in Gaza
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An illustration shows 2023 Nobel chemistry laureates US Chemist Moungi Bawendi, US Chemist Louis Brus and Russian physicist Alexei Ekimov (Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach)
October 4, 2023, 2:58 pm
Three scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on minuscule quantum dots
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov honored for work on tiny particles that can release very bright colored light and are used in electronics and medical imaging
By david keyton and Mike Corder
File: Then-science minister Daniel Hershkowitz (center) in a meeting in July 2012 with Israeli Nobel laureates Ada Yonath (left) and Aaron Ciechanover (Gil Yohanan/Flash90)
February 12, 2023, 2:50 pm
Israeli Nobel winners warn against judicial overhaul in letter to Netanyahu, Herzog
Avram Hershko, Ada Yonath, Aaron Ciechanover, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel, Roger Kornberg, Daniel Kahneman raise ‘deep concern’ over effect of proposal on scientific research
By Ash Obel
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Walter Kohn in 1998 was sold at auction for $457,531. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions via JTA)
January 30, 2022, 7:47 pm
Nobel Prize won by Jewish man saved in Kindertransport auctioned for nearly $500,000
Lot in which medal was sold also includes three of Walter Kohn’s science textbooks from when he was a student
By Shira Hanau
Goran K Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, centre, announces the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 6, 2021. (Claudio Bresciani/TT New Agency via AP)
October 6, 2021, 6:02 pm
Chemists who discovered ‘greener’ way to build molecules win Nobel
Simple yet ‘ingenious’ method by David List and David W.C. MacMillan used to make everything from medicines to food flavorings
By david keyton and Frank Jordans
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1912 (Public Domain via WikimediaCommons)
December 21, 2020, 4:30 am
75 years post-Hiroshima, Jewish ‘mother of the bomb’ inspires spy thriller novel
Physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission soon after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, but Nobel Prize was given to a man as she saw her breakthrough used in ways she opposed
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer Doudna arrive at the fifth annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, December 4, 2016. ( Peter Barreras/Invision/AP)
October 7, 2020, 2:22 pm
Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to gene-editing tool pioneers
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna, first female pair to snag award, honored for groundbreaking work developing CRISPR method
By Agencies
Haifa Bay's industrial area, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
August 6, 2020, 9:28 am
Nobel chemistry laureate rules out possibility of Beirut-like explosion in Haifa
Contradicting warnings that Lebanon disaster is a wake-up call for northern port city, Dan Shechtman says ‘people in Haifa die slowly from air pollution’
By Sue Surkes
(From left) John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2019. (Niklas Elmehed/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
October 9, 2019, 6:55 pm
3 win Chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion batteries, vital to phones, cleaner fuel
John Goodenough, 97, oldest ever laureate, is past winner of Israel’s Samson Prize; his father was expert on Judaism in the Hellenistic period
By Pia OHLIN
George P. Smith talks on the phone with The Associated Press at his home in Columbia, Missouri, United States, October 3, 2018, after learning he had won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Marjorie Sable via AP)
October 3, 2018, 3:50 pm
Anti-Israel professor among chemistry Nobel Prize winners
George Smith, a non-Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Peace, has called for US to end arms sales to Israel and called ‘Jerusalem of Gold’ lyrics ‘Jewish supremacist’
By ToI Staff and AP
Portraits of the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are seen on a screen (L-R) Jacques Dubochet from Switzerland, Joachim Frank from the US and Richard Henderson from Britain on October 4, 2017 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)
October 4, 2017, 2:09 pm
Nobel Chemistry Prize honors electron microscopy
US-, UK- and Switzerland-based researchers Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson and Jacques Dubochet will share $1.1 million reward
By AP and ToI Staff
Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, left, receives the Nobel Prize in chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. (AP Photo/Tobias Rostlund, Pool)
August 4, 2016, 11:24 pm
Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail dies at 70
Caltech professor and adviser to Obama was pioneer in monitoring chemical reactions, first US science envoy to Mideast
By AP
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