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Why was Arthur Harden awarded Noble Prize in 1929?
British biochemist Sir Arthur Harden was born in. In 1929, he and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin shared the…
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Why was Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus awarded Noble Prize in 1928?
Adolf Otto Reinhold won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928, for his work researching the structure of sterols and…
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Why was Heinrich Otto Wieland awarded Noble Prize in 1927?
German chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland, who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work determining the molecular structure…
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Why was Theodor Svedberg awarded Noble Prize in 1926?
Theodor Svedberg developed analytical ultracentrifugation. Svedberg estimated the molecular weight of haemoglobin to be 68,000 daltons using this method. Svedberg won…
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Why was Richard Adolf Zsigmondy awarded Noble Prize in 1925?
Chemist Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was born in Austria. He won the chemistry Nobel Prize in 1925 “for his demonstration of…
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Why was Fritz Pregl awarded Noble Prize in 1923?
Fritz Pregl was an Austrian-Slovene chemist and physician with a background in both Slovene and German. For his major contributions…
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Why was Francis William Aston awarded Noble Prize in 1922?
Francis William Aston, a British chemist, and physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for his discovery of…
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Why was Frederick Soddy awarded Noble Prize in 1921?
Ernest Rutherford, an English radiochemist, and Frederick Soddy established the theory that radioactivity results from elemental transformation, which is now…
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Why was Walther Hermann Nernst awarded Noble Prize in 1920?
German chemist Walther Hermann Nernst is known for his work in solid-state physics, electrochemistry, physical chemistry, and thermodynamics. He won…
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Why was Fritz Haber awarded Noble Prize in 1918?
In 1918, Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize for his work on ammonia synthesis. He developed the Haber process, which…
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